Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you.

We’re a leading global online delivery platform, and our vision is to empower everyday convenience. Whether it’s a Friday-night feast, a post-gym poke bowl, or grabbing some groceries, our tech platform connects tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery and convenience partners across the globe.

About this role

This role improves the scalability and effectiveness of the Legal function by turning recurring legal work into better tools, workflows and data-enabled processes. It reduces manual effort, improves visibility of legal activity and helps the function deliver more consistently across markets and teams.

Location: This role can be based in Amsterdam, London, or Berlin. Reporting to: Director of Legal

These are some of the key components to the position:

• Lead senior operational engineering support for Legal Operations and Transformation, designing tools, workflows and automation that improve legal delivery.
• Translate Legal function requirements into practical technology solutions, prototypes, dashboards, automations and process improvements.
• Own technical design choices for assigned tools within agreed architecture, security, data and governance guardrails.
• Partner with Legal, Product, Tech, Data, Compliance and business stakeholders to prioritise use cases and convert them into deployable solutions.
• Monitor performance, adoption and reliability of legal operations tools, resolving issues and recommending improvements.
• Document solution design, user guidance and operating processes so that tools can be maintained and scaled.

What will you bring to the team?

• Strong interest in regulation affecting digital businesses (e.g., digital markets, platform regulation, AI regulation, competition, payments, employment).
• Demonstrated experience coding, building and deploying AI solutions (e.g., agents, bots,automation scripts, LLM workflows, APIs, data pipelines).
• Ability to assist in the design and implementation of technical systems architecture.
• A talent for translating the legal team’s needs into substantive tools, processes, agents and deployable apps.
• Experience with Python, JavaScript, or similar languages; familiarity with LLM APIs and automation frameworks is a strong plus.
• Ability to structure unstructured data and design systems that monitor regulatory change.
• Experience building dashboards, workflow automation, or internal tools is highly desirable.
• Comfort with G-suite, Microsoft Office and collaborative tools.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Clear communication skills, able to bridge technical and legal stakeholders

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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. Every time a customer decides where to order, they're picking a side.

At the heart of the JET Customer League are our values and behaviours. They guide every interaction, every decision, every innovation. These are the actions we need to perform consistently and brilliantly, to surpass the competition and earn our customers’ loyalty, again and again.

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.

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.

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