Just Eat Takeaway.com
Just Eat Takeaway.com
Just Eat Takeaway.com is a digital food-ordering and delivery marketplace operating across the Food & Beverage, Marketplace, and eCommerce sectors. Its platform connects consumers with restaurants and delivery partners, supporting food discovery, ordering, payment, and delivery logistics across 15 countries. The company’s reported scale includes 61 million active consumers, 356,000 partners, 653 million processed orders, and €19 billion in gross transaction value, making its technology, marketplace operations, and delivery ecosystem relevant areas for people exploring opportunities with a large international consumer platform.

Head of Engineering, Logistics Services – Berlin Hybrid

Lead the Logistics Services engineering organisation at Just Eat Takeaway.com, overseeing platforms, integrations, and operational tools. Manage 59 engineers and multi-million-dollar technology investments across a global food delivery business.

Description

  • Set and deliver the technical strategy for Logistics Services engineering
  • Lead an approximately 59-person organisation spanning DaaS, Integrations, and Tooling
  • Direct delivery, technical direction, and architectural development across integrations, operational tooling, and the DaaS platform
  • Drive consolidation into dependable shared services that reduce fragmentation and strengthen reliability and scalability
  • Work with product and engineering leaders to align roadmaps and prioritise investment
  • Promote technical excellence, experimentation, psychological safety, and ongoing improvement
  • Maintain operational resilience and service reliability for high-scale, real-time systems
  • Develop engineering leadership through coaching engineering managers and senior engineers
  • Own recruitment, retention, and organisational design
  • Manage a multi-million-dollar engineering budget, vendor approach, and technology investment choices
  • Engage with Director, VP, and Board stakeholders while building partnerships across Engineering, Product, Operations, and the broader business

Requirements

  • Extensive engineering leadership experience, including several years managing large distributed organisations of 50 to 100 or more people
  • Experience leading platform or integration engineering at scale, ideally delivering B2B or external-facing services in logistics, marketplaces, or similarly complex environments
  • Strong technical understanding of distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architecture, and cloud-native platforms
  • Demonstrated success building and scaling engineering teams, developing engineering managers, and establishing a high-performing culture
  • Experience leading platform consolidation or shared-service migrations across complex, fragmented technology environments
  • Ability to turn business priorities into a clear technical roadmap and secure alignment around it
  • Clear communication and stakeholder-management skills with technical and non-technical audiences
  • Practical experience with DevOps, CI/CD, agile delivery, and data-informed decision-making
  • Experience managing vendors and controlling budgets at substantial scale

Benefits

  • Hybrid schedule with three days each week in the Berlin or Canada office and two days working from home
  • An inclusive culture centred on diversity, belonging, and psychological safety
  • A collaborative, energetic, and supportive working environment
  • Professional growth through coaching and leadership-development opportunities
  • Strategic influence over technology investment at a global food delivery platform

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