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Ready for a challenge?
Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience.
Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.
About this role
We are looking for a Senior Java Developer to join our Logistics Areas and Fees team. If you are passionate about building scalable, high-throughput backend services and thrive in a fast-paced, high-scale environment, this role is for you. This role is open to candidates based in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa or Winnipeg.
As a Senior Java Developer within our Logistics domain, you will play a key role in architecting, developing, and operating the core services and distributed systems that power delivery areas & fees related calculations. You will own backend systems end-to-end, from system architecture and API design to deployment, observability, and performance optimization, ensuring high availability and low-latency execution across our platform.
Your mission is to deliver robust, performant, and resilient Java-based services, working closely with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and data analysts to ship critical backend infrastructure that our internal operators and the wider logistics platform rely on every day. You will champion modern Java standards, system reliability, and software engineering best practices, while mentoring team members and helping shape the technical direction of backend engineering within the organization.
In short, you’ll combine deep Java and backend expertise with a strong system design mindset to power mission-critical logistics operations at scale.
Location: Remote - Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario
Reporting to: Technology Manager
These are some of the key components of the position:
Maintain existing and develop new microservices using Java 21. Extend the functionality of existing applications per Business requests.
Maintain existing and develop new infrastructure resources on the AWS platform using Terraform.
Work with a microservices architecture using REST API and Message Brokers.
Design, build, and maintain high-performance, scalable backend services and APIs using Java.
Participate in architectural decisions, RFCs, and technical design reviews across the Logistics domain Collaborate with Product, QE, and Data colleagues to ship high-quality releases on a continuous delivery cadence Own your work throughout the entire product development lifecycle, from technical design and planning to market release.
Review the code of peers in a team.
Support and mentor team members, helping grow backend engineering as a discipline Identify improvements, highlight risks vs benefits, and translate them into technical requirements.
Work with the product team, providing technical knowledge and expertise, helping to design the future of our products.
Participate in paid on-call rotation.
What will you bring to the team?
7+ years of hands-on experience architecting and building scalable, high-performance enterprise applications and leading complex software development projects.
Be curious, with a strong appetite for new knowledge.
Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, design patterns, testing, and debugging.
Solid understanding of consuming, producing, and designing RESTful web services.
Experience with Java (Spark or Quarkus framework).
Experience with streams and list operations is a nice-to-have.
Solid grounding in design patterns for designing distributed systems (bounded contexts, sagas, eventual consistency, and the outbox pattern) (must have).
Experience in Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is a strong nice-to-have.
Experience with message brokers (Kafka, Amazon SQS, RabbitMQ).
Production experience deploying to AWS and running services on Kubernetes (EKS).Experience with System logging and monitoring using tools such as Grafana, AWS CloudWatch and DataDog.
Experience with data persistence in relational, MySQL, unstructured and/or cached forms.
Strong experience with Redis for caching, rate limiting and distributed locks is a plus.
Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-a-Code (Terraform) is nice-to-have.
Understanding of continuous delivery, deployment, and integration.
Familiarity with Version Control (Git) and related tools.
AI & Modern Engineering Capabilities
Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex or similar is required
Experience making repositories agent-ready, maintaining clear in-repo documentation, AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md files, structured code conventions, and reproducible local setups so AI coding agents can contribute effectively
Experience using AI agents to drive end-to-end engineering tasks (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor agents, or similar) for code generation, refactoring, debugging, and automated PR workflows
Experience integrating AI into backend engineering workflows (e.g., AI-assisted code review, test generation, log/incident analysis, intelligent on-call triage) Understanding of prompt engineering and evaluation of AI-generated outputs in a software engineering context Awareness of best practices for AI-driven development, including reliability, reproducibility, security, and governance, particularly as they apply to production backend systems
At JET, this is on the menu:
Our teams forge connections internally and work with some of the best-known brands on the planet, giving us truly international impact in a dynamic environment.
Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition.
Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging
No matter who you are, what you look like, who you love, or where you are from, you can find your place at Just Eat Takeaway.com . We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture, encouraging diversity of people and thinking, in which all employees feel they truly belong and can bring their most colourful selves to work every day.
What else is cooking?
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What We Offer:
Team Vibes: Thrive in a collaborative culture where your ideas matter.
More Time Off: Generous PTO with a buy and sell program with up to 5 extra days!
Family First: Up to 20 weeks top up for parental leave.
Premium Benefits: Flexible medical & dental insurance for you and your family.
Keep Learning: Access world-class training resources to power your success.
Perks Galore: Exclusive offers from Workperks from hundreds of top brands.
Future Funded: RRSP contributions with diverse investment portfolios.
We’ve Got You: We’ve got you covered. Access paid sick time to care for yourself or your family when life happens & access to our well-being support programs.
Digital Nomads: Family abroad or just want a change of scenery? Enjoy the freedom to work from almost anywhere in the world for 4 weeks a year.
Career Growth: Fuel your personal and professional evolution through our dedicated mentorship, global mobility pathways, and a wellness-first culture rooted in true diversity and inclusion.
NOTE:
All employees will be asked to sign a Consent for Disclosure of Personal Information in order to complete a background check. Job offers will be conditional upon results that the Company determines to be satisfactory.
Compensation range: $102,000.00 - $128,250.00
Final compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and internal equity.