- Over 300 highly-skilled technology jobs to be created at Deliveroo’s new Global HQ in London’s Cannon Street
- Deliveroo orders worldwide grew by over 650% in 2016 and the firm now employs over 1,000 people full-time globally, and works with over 20,000 restaurants.
Deliveroo, the growing British on-demand food delivery company, is to create hundreds of new high-skilled technology jobs as it continues to expand rapidly in the U.K. and around the world. The company grew by over 650% in 2016 and now works with over 20,000 restaurants and employs over 1,000 people full-time around the world.
The UK is home to Deliveroo’s global HQ and technology hub, and many of the 300 new hires will be highly-skilled and experienced senior software and hardware engineers who will help the company to continue to play a leading role in driving innovation in food delivery.
Deliveroo’s technology is British built, and while it starts with an app, it relies on a next-generation logistics routing system that manages the delivery of tens of thousands of orders simultaneously and in real time, across 12 countries and 130 cities around the world.
Deliveroo’s engineering team is multidisciplinary and includes specialists from areas as diverse as consumer software engineering, product design, machine learning, operations research and cognitive neuroscience. The company develops its entire service from its London headquarters, where it builds everything from consumer, rider and restaurant applications to machine learning models which learn when food will be ready for pick up.
The new hires will be come from a wide range of backgrounds, including software engineering, behavioural economics and machine learning, as the company brings together the very best global tech and scientific talent and ideas to enhance services and experience for Deliveroo’s customers and partner restaurants:
- The hires will be experts from a number of sectors like software engineering, behavioural economics and algorithm development
- New hires will join an already 125-strong tech team, to create one of the largest technology hubs in the UK
- The 300 new jobs will include software engineers, research scientists, product managers, user researchers, designers and data analysts, particularly at a senior level
- The growing team will be based at the company’s new London global headquarters in Cannon Street from Summer 2017
- Technology team is led by CTO Mike Hudack, formerly of Facebook; VP of Engineering Dan Webb, former London site lead for Twitter; VP of Product Management Grant Smith, formerly of Hotels.com; Chief Scientist and Neuroscience PhD Mike Todd formerly of Netflix’s content recommendations team; and Henry Crawford, Head of Business Intelligence, formerly of Groupon
Since launching in 2013 the British tech company has created work for thousands of people across the UK whilst helping more than 8,000 local restaurants to expand their businesses in 75 British towns and cities, and providing customers with the very best on-demand food service.
Will Shu, Founder and CEO of Deliveroo said:
“Deliveroo is going from strength to strength and growing every single day. London is where I founded this company and it’s from our headquarters here that we export our British-born technology around the world.
That’s why we’re now on the lookout for over 300 people to join our engineering team. To any young engineer wanting to be part of Britain’s most exciting technology company, I’d say now’s the time to join Deliveroo.
When so many of the success stories in the on-demand economy have been grown from America, I am particularly proud to be doing this here in Britain.”