About the Role
We are seeking a technically proficient, product-minded engineer to advance AI capabilities within Just Eat Takeaway. You will collaborate with ambitious internal teams and technology partners, maximizing their use of advanced AI and translating insights into organizational improvements. This is a hands-on role focused on analyzing complex workflows, identifying critical gaps, and generating technical insights to influence development.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with internal teams and strategic partners to understand critical workflows, uncover failure modes, and identify the highest-impact opportunities for AI improvement.
- Prototype and iterate on prompts, agents, and workflow designs to understand system behaviour and unlock real value.
- Synthesize findings for Product Engineering and Platform teams, translating usage patterns into clear, reproducible evaluations, benchmarks, and technical artefacts.
- Build repeatable tools, patterns, and evaluation approaches to enhance quality across multiple use cases.
- Operate with strong judgment in ambiguous environments, balancing immediate problem-solving with long-term systemic improvement.
- Build relationships across engineering and product communities, serving as a trusted technical partner.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering and AI fundamentals.
- Experience in a startup or a product-focused role in a larger organization.
- Experience building AI applications, agents, or evaluation systems.
- Ability to reason clearly about model behaviour in complex workflows.
- Comfort working directly with experienced SMEs and translating their challenges into technical signals.
- Fluency in prototyping, debugging, evaluation design, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Experience working across every layer of the stack.
- Clear communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
- High agency and a strong product sense, with a bias toward building lasting solutions.
- Deeply experienced with AI tools for fast solution creation.
- Ability to balance model usage to maximize ROI.
- Familiarity with complex marketplace businesses is a bonus.
- Experience as an early-stage startup engineer or in a previous FDE-style role is a bonus.
Skills
- AI
- Software Engineering
- Prompt Engineering
- Agent Development
- Workflow Design
- Evaluation Frameworks
- Debugging
- Technical Communication
- Cross-functional Collaboration
- Product Sense
Location
- London
- Amsterdam
Work Type
- Hybrid
- 3 days a week in office
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- 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.
- At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
