Staff Software Engineer, Gousto
1-2 days a week in office
Recipe boxes delivered to your door
Open for applications
Recipe boxes delivered to your door
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1-2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the most-loved way to eat dinner.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re hungry for a role where you can combine deep technical leadership with real business impact—this is it
- 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
What the job involves
- We’re thrilled to offer an exciting opportunity for a Staff Software Engineer to join us at 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
- From mentoring engineers in XP practices like TDD and pair programming to guiding architectural decisions across domains, you’ll be a key driver of technical excellence and innovation
- Here at Gousto you’ll take ownership of two major initiatives
- First, you’ll lead the modernisation of our sign-up experience, delivering a seamless, multi-market flow that improves personalisation, compliance, and mobile parity while decoupling legacy systems
- Second, you’ll empower our marketing teams with CMS-driven, SEO-optimised landing pages and precise attribution—reducing engineering dependency and boosting 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
- 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 and evolve Gousto’s engineering culture by advocating for continuous improvement and adoption of best practices such as DORA metrics and XP principles
Application 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)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
There is an accelerating consumer need to eat healthily, sustainably, and at value. Gousto aims to meet this need with its meal-kit delivery service, which offers pre-packaged ingredients and recipe instructions. It sets itself apart with more than 200 different recipes to choose from each week - a third of which are customisable.
In 2021, Gousto sold more than 90 million meals, amounting to three meals every second, a figure that is on the rise. It is part of the UK Plastics Pact, which advocates for 100% reusable, recyclable and compostable plastic. As a member, Gousto has committed to eliminating problematic plastics, stimulating innovation and helping to build a stronger recycling system in the UK.
Gousto became a B Corp certified company for its sustainability efforts. Following huge investments in 2023, the company is now a unicorn and is sure to continue its growth over the coming years as more consumers switch to convenient online grocery shopping.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
4 people
Adam Harris, Director of New Markets
Our mission
To take Gousto to more markets beyond the UK.Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Feb 2023
$68.3m
LATE VC
Jan 2022
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $382m
Company benefits
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Interest free loan to spend on the latest tech
- Referral scheme
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays), + a holiday day added each year (up to 30 days), + buy up to 5 days extra holiday
- 40% Gousto discount, 15% for friends and family, and first box free
- Digital GP & wellbeing apps
- Private healthcare
- Discounted gym membership
- Company pension
Company values
- Dream - We’ve got huge ambition and believe everything is possible - Curious, bold and resilient, we’ve got an insatiable appetite to learn and grow
- Deliver - We work at pace and focus on impact, taking ownership of the solution and raising the bar every step of the way
- Care - We obsess over our customers, doing the right thing for them and for the planet. We are one team, supporting and celebrating one another
Company HQ
Shepherd's Bush, London HQ, UK
Articles
Leadership
Timo Boldt
(Founder & CEO)Spent 4 years in Finance at Rothschild and a hedge fund before founding Gousto in 2012. Sits on the Digital Advisory Board at Unilever.
People progressing
Joined as Operations Development Director, being promoted to EVP Operations after 1 year, and has since become Chief People Officer.
Joined as a Customer Care Agent in 2014, and is now Head of Customer Care.
Joined as PR Manager, being promoted to Senior Brand and PR Manager after 1 year and again to Head of Brand Marketing and PR after 3 years.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Gousto
- Whether it’s creating diversity in our recipes or building new teams, 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; working hard to ensure Gousto is an environment where you can be totally yourself.
- Our Inclusion Communities are employee-led groups that connect people with shared identities, lived experiences, and passions. They champion each other, raise awareness of what matters most, and help us build a workplace where everyone belongs. Whether it’s Pride Sports Day, an Eid feast, learning from disability advocates, or providing free period products across our sites, our communities help turn care into action and they’ve driven meaningful change, shaping policies that support our people through key life moments, from enhanced parental leave to menopause, fertility and baby loss support. They’re powerful platforms for connection, celebration and progress, and we’re always striving to do better.
- We currently have nine active communities: Gousto Mind, Gousto Women, Gousto Muslim, Gousto Black, Gousto Asia, Gousto Pride, Gousto Neuro & Gousto Parents.
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