Overview

Location: London, Hybrid

We’re thrilled to offer an exciting opportunity for a Staff Software Engineer to join Gousto, where you’ll help shape the future of our customer acquisition and e-commerce platform. You’ll lead the technical direction of a high-impact engineering team, working closely with product, design, data, and platform experts to deliver robust, scalable systems. You’ll mentor engineers in XP practices like TDD and pair programming and guide architectural decisions across domains, becoming a key driver of technical excellence and innovation. This role includes ownership of two major initiatives: modernising the sign-up experience to deliver a seamless, multi-market flow with improved personalisation, compliance, and mobile parity while decoupling legacy systems; and empowering marketing with CMS-driven, SEO-optimised landing pages and precise attribution to reduce engineering dependency and boost campaign performance.

It’s a rare chance to make a wide-reaching impact across a fast-growing, food-loving business—so come and help us cook up something amazing.

What You’ll Do

• Coach and mentor engineers, promoting best practices such as XP, TDD, and pair programming through hands-on guidance
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable, API-based and event-driven architectures using cloud services and a mix of relational and NoSQL databases
• Drive technical excellence by championing high-quality solutions, improving system architecture, and boosting developer productivity
• Guide and de-risk the delivery of large-scale technical changes, ensuring alignment with architectural patterns and non-functional requirements
• Collaborate cross-functionally with teams across product, design, and platform to solve complex business challenges with innovative technical solutions
• Align engineering efforts with broader business goals, enabling teams to deliver efficiently while upholding architectural integrity
• Help shape Gousto’s engineering culture by advocating for continuous improvement and adoption of best practices such as DORA metrics and XP principles

Who You Are

• A strategic and hands-on engineer with a strong track record of designing and delivering scalable, secure solutions that align with long-term business and technical goals
• Experienced in collaborating with architects, principal engineers, and cross-functional teams to ensure systems are reliable, performant, and aligned with platform-wide strategies
• Comfortable leading architecture discussions and driving improvements in scalability, reliability, and maintainability
• A strong advocate of Agile and XP practices, with the ability to embed iterative, feedback-driven development methods across multiple teams
• Skilled at balancing short-term delivery needs with long-term sustainability, ensuring solutions remain adaptable and future-proof
• Passionate about mentoring others, with a proven ability to coach senior engineers and uplift technical standards across the board
• A promoter of DevOps culture and shared ownership, with experience improving developer experience through tooling, process enhancements, and operational excellence

Additional Information

Interview Process

• Call with the Gousto TA Team
• Introduction with Hiring Manager
• System Design Session
• Pair Programming and XP Practices Session
• Thrive @ Gousto (Ownership Principle round)

Benefits

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Gousto is for everyone: we care about our people and the opportunities they have at Gousto. Across our business we lead with inclusivity and strive for equality in all we do; we want Gousto to be an environment where you can be totally yourself. Everyone is welcome and we’re looking for applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences. If you require additional flexibility or have a disability, please let us know and we will do our best to help you feel comfortable.