About this role
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
Just Eat Takeaway is looking for a Technology Manager to lead and grow the Partner Performance team in the Supply Performance and Experience domain. Driven by our core values to lead, deliver, and care, you will champion a customer-centric focus and nurture team collaboration to build innovative, high-impact data solutions.
Please note that this position is located in London (3 days a week at our London office and 2 days working from home)
In this role, you will lead engineers in transforming complex operational data into actionable intelligence. You will oversee the real-time insights layer and predictive recommendation engine that helps partners optimize daily operations, reduce delays, and drive revenue growth across the JET ecosystem.
These are some of the key components to the position:
- Lead engineering teams in building real-time data and analytics solutions that empower partners to streamline operations and maximize revenue.
- Provide primary accountability for technical direction, engineering quality, and roadmap execution across product development teams.
- Coordinate the implementation of intelligent insights, predictive alerts, and automated growth nudges using high-scale event streaming and BigQuery.
- Partner with Product Managers and key stakeholders to define significant features and align technical initiatives with commercial needs.
- Support integration with JET’s communication and optimization agents to drive automated partner decision-making.
- Coach and mentor engineers, setting clear goals to cultivate a high-performance culture and support individual career development.
- Promote engineering best practices, driving continuous improvements in architecture, deployment processes, and system design across the domain.
- Own end-to-end delivery by ensuring functionality is continuously deployed, monitored, and optimized for high stability in production.
- Transparently communicate progress, architectural patterns, and standards to engineering peers, senior individual contributors, and the Head of Engineering.
What will you bring to the team?
- Proven experience leading and developing engineering teams building products powered by Event-Driven Architecture and real-time streaming platforms.
- Experience in delivering high-quality, high-scale software projects in an Agile environment (Scrum or Kanban).
- Experience developing products that turn complex data streams into actionable user insights and automated recommendations.
- Familiarity with modern backend or cloud tech stacks (e.g., Kotlin, Java, .NET, BigQuery, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud).
- Strong capability to work independently, troubleshoot complex architectural issues, and drive technical strategy.
- Dedicated focus on coaching and inspiring engineers to foster a collaborative and high-performing team environment.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder alignment skills to translate commercial needs into clear engineering priorities.
- Commitment to continuous improvement, operational excellence, and sharing standard practices across the wider organization.
At JET, this is how we play
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. Being the best at what we do isn’t just about delivering on our strategy. It's a competition for something incredibly valuable – our customers' choice. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side.
At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again.
Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth, helping one another to succeed and celebrating wins. By truly living our values and embodying our behaviours, we’re building a customer-first culture which enables us to 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 are we delivering?
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