Summary
Location
Enschede
Type
full-time
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About this role
Ready for a challenge?
Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online food 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 Technology Manager to lead a newly formed backend team, Acceleration. The position combines technical leadership, people management, and strong cross-team collaboration. You and your team will be part of wider Acceleration at JET, with a mission to improve developer velocity by resolving systemic technical debt and creating new architectural pathways that unlock productivity across the organisation. You will lead a team that works horizontally across Engineering, driving high-impact improvements to architecture, tooling, and platforms.
Location: Hybrid- 3 days a week from our Enschede office & 2 days working from home
Reporting to: Senior Technology Manager
These are some of the key components to the position:
- Lead a team of backend engineers, providing technical direction, coaching, and fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
- Drive initiatives that resolve systemic, cross-cutting technical debt that individual teams cannot address independently.
- Work closely with engineering teams, platform pillars, and stakeholders to identify and prioritise high-impact acceleration opportunities.
- Guide the design and delivery of architectural improvements, shared tooling, and platform capabilities that improve developer velocity.
- Own and evolve the technical roadmap for the team, balancing short-term impact with long-term architectural health.
- Ensure high engineering standards, strong design practices, and operational excellence across all delivered solutions.
- Promote scalable, reusable solutions that unlock productivity across the wider engineering organisation.
What will you bring to the team?
- Proven experience leading and growing high-performing engineering teams.
- Strong background in software engineering with experience in backend and platform development.
- Experience working on complex, large-scale, or legacy systems.
- Ability to work effectively across multiple teams and domains to drive alignment and execution.
- Strong communication and leadership skills, with the ability to balance technical depth with organisational impact.
- A mindset focused on scalability, automation, and building reusable, self-service solutions.
- Experience addressing cross-cutting technical challenges such as architecture evolution, platform reliability, or developer productivity.
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?
Want to know more about our JETers, culture or company? Have a look at our career site where you can find people's stories, blogs, podcasts and more JET morsels.
Are you ready to take your seat? Apply now!
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Other facts
About Takeaway
Just Eat Takeaway.com is a leading global online delivery marketplace, connecting consumers and restaurants through our platform in 17 countries. Like a dinner table, working at JET brings our office employees and couriers together.
From coding to customer service to couriers, JET is a fun, fast-paced and supportive place where you can be yourself.
No day is the same. Our days are filled with new experiences. We see every challenge that comes our way as a chance to grow, both the business, and ourselves.
We’re connected to millions of food-lovers, hundreds of thousands of connected partners and some of the best-known brands of the planet. When you take your seat here, you’ll find that a simple scribble on a napkin can turn into something seen by millions.
Together we transform, create, reinvent and empower every food moment.
As a leading online food tech company, JET brings together the stability of a global business, with the agility of a start-up. We got here by always staying one step ahead of the competition.
So load up your plate with ideas that get you excited, because at JET everything is on the table.
https://careers.justeattakeaway.com
What you'll do
- Lead a newly formed backend team focused on improving developer velocity by addressing technical debt and enhancing architectural pathways. Collaborate with engineering teams and stakeholders to drive high-impact improvements in architecture, tooling, and platforms.
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