Engineering Manager (DevEx)

Job Description

Engineering Manager (DevEx)

Join us in our mission to transform the way people shop and eat, where impact, innovation and growth drive everything we do. Our Engineering teams tackle complex technical challenges across a global, three-sided marketplace, building and scaling systems that serve millions of customers, riders and partners every day.

From real-time logistics to resilient infrastructure and marketplace optimisation, we design, build and operate technology that powers Deliveroo’s growth at scale.

We’re looking for an Engineering Manager (DevEx) to join our London team. In this role, you’ll lead the Local DevEx team to build a world-class, automated development environment that empowers thousands of engineers to ship high-quality code with zero friction. This role is based in our London office with a hybrid setup, typically 3 days in the office.

Get to know our Engineering team — what drives us, how we work, and what you can expect.

What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll be joining the Local DevEx team within our Foundations group. We own the "paved path" for how engineers at Deliveroo and across the wider DoorDash group develop, test, and ship services using DevContainers, remote IDEs, and agentic AI workflows.

Here’s what your day-to-day might look like:

• Define the Paved Path: Evolve "DevBox" as our primary development platform, overseeing remote VM lifecycles, JetBrains remote backends, and seamless onboarding UX.

• Drive Technical Excellence: Partner with Staff Engineers to review complex designs (TDDs) and PRs, ensuring our internal tooling meets the highest standards of reliability and security.

• Lead AI Integration: Own the productisation of AI-assisted tooling (like Claude Code) and MCP connectors, balancing developer velocity with IP safety and privacy.

• Operational Ownership: Set the bar for SLOs, on-call rotations, and incident response, ensuring our internal platform is as resilient as our customer-facing ones.

• People Leadership: Manage, coach, and mentor a high-performing team of engineers, fostering a culture of psychological safety, high trust, and continuous career growth.

• Stakeholder Alignment: Represent the team in group-wide planning, navigating trade-offs and communicating roadmaps to Product, Security, and SRE partners.

What You’ll Need to Thrive

Essential

• Proven Engineering Leadership: Demonstrated experience managing high-performing teams and a track record of delivering complex production systems.

• Infrastructure Expertise: Significant experience with devcontainer workflows, remote IDE orchestration (JetBrains/IntelliJ), or Firecracker-style VM snapshotting.

• Tooling & Automation: Strong background in building developer CLIs or workstation automation using Go, Python, or TypeScript.

• Security & Networking: Deep understanding of secure access patterns (VPNs/Tailscale), secrets management (Vault), and managed software distribution.

• Operational Rigour: Proven ability to drive operational excellence through SLOs, robust monitoring, and post-incident preventative work.

Nice to Have

• Experience with LLM-assisted developer tooling and "safe-by-design" AI implementation.

• Familiarity with remote execution and caching patterns such as BuildBuddy.

Why Join Us?

At Deliveroo, you’ll do work that matters—solving real-world problems in a three-sided marketplace that’s constantly evolving. We’re food lovers, problem solvers, community builders and more, brought together by a shared drive to make things better. Working here you can expect to:

• 🔧 Solve meaningful problems at real scale Work on a complex, always-on marketplace that impacts millions every day.

• 🌱 See your impact, fast Ship, test and improve ideas quickly in a low-hierarchy, high-ownership environment.

• 🧠 Grow through challenge and ownership Take on big, ambiguous problems and accelerate your career with strong support.

• 🌎 A culture built for builders High standards, collaboration, flexible working and continuous learning.

• ​​💰 Share in the success you help create Competitive salary and equity options, so you’re rewarded for the impact you make.

➡️ Want a deeper look at how we build? Check out our Tech Blog.

We aim to create a fair process that lets your skills shine—our interview typically includes 3-4 stages. Explore our Engineering Interview Guide here to help you feel confident at each stage.

Our Global Structure

Deliveroo is now part of DoorDash, bringing together teams with even greater reach, scale, and ambition. Depending on your role, you may collaborate with teammates, systems, and leaders across DoorDash and Wolt. Together, we’re unlocking new possibilities as one global team.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At Deliveroo, we know that a great workplace reflects the world around us and that true diversity and inclusion make us stronger, more creative, and better at what we do. We’re committed to fostering an environment where everyone can do their best work and feel they belong.

We believe in equality of opportunity and welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion, or belief.

If you have a disability or long-term health condition and need support to apply for one of our roles, or if you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact our recruitment team at accommodations@deliveroo.co.uk and we’ll be happy to help ensure you have a fair and equitable experience.

If you’re excited about solving meaningful problems at scale and growing with a supportive team, we’d love to hear from you.