Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Ready for a challenge?

Just Eat Takeaway.com is a leading global online delivery platform with a vision to empower everyday convenience. Its 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 and reporting line

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.