Staff Code Quality Engineer

• Architecting Quality Systems: Deliver consistent, trusted, and reproducible test coverage reporting for Go services, replacing legacy tooling and integrating cleanly into CI/CD and pull request workflows
• Defining Automated Gates: Design and implement explicit, enforceable, and scalable quality gates across thousands of repositories to ensure high standards by default
• Reducing Technical Debt: Build systems to identify unused code, weakly exercised paths, and uninstrumented logic to reduce structural complexity and improve system health
• Powering AI-Assisted Development: Encode gating rules and quality expectations into agentic development workflows, ensuring AI-generated code meets the same rigorous standards as human-written code
• Driving Engineering Excellence: Use data to track improvements in coverage trust and first-time quality gate passes, influencing engineering standards across a distributed, global organisation

• Significant experience in Go: Strong software engineering fundamentals with a proven track record of building and operating production systems in Go or similar modern languages
• Platform Engineering mindset: Demonstrated ownership of large-scale codebases or shared developer platforms used by many distributed teams
• Expertise in CI/CD & Quality Controls: Proven experience designing automated quality controls such as static analysis, linting, policy enforcement, or code scanning
• Strategic Thinking on Maintainability: Deep understanding of technical debt and how structural complexity impacts long-term system health and developer velocity
• Forward-looking Technical Vision: Familiarity with state-of-the-art agentic AI development workflows and the ability to translate ambiguous quality concerns into reproducible technical controls

Any experience with TypeScript, Kotlin, and Python is also beneficial

• Competitive salary and equity options
• Up to 5% matched pension contributions
• Free Deliveroo Plus: free delivery and access to special offers
• Team lunches from the best local restaurants
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing with length of time spent working at Deliveroo
• One day of paid leave per year to volunteer with a registered charity
• Funded single cover healthcare on our core plan, with the option to add family members at own cost
• On-site gym (HQ), discounted external gym membership
• Access to wellbeing apps such as LesMills+, Strava, Headspace, Yogaia via GymPass
• Discounted dental insurance and a range of other flexible benefits, such as critical illness cover, partner life cover, travel insurance, health assessments
• Life assurance
• Maternity, paternity and maternity and shared parental leave, eligible from day one of employment
• Excellent kit to enable working from home and a parent-friendly working culture
• Access to free mortgage advice
• Cycle to Work Scheme or Season Ticket Loans, depending how you wish to travel
• Excellent learning and development opportunities and access to RooLearn, our learning platform, packed with high-quality training and content
• Regular Employee Resource Group (ERG) led social events – examples include dinners, dance lessons and in-office yoga sessions
• Summer and end-of-year parties