Technology Manager

Join Just Eat Takeaway.com and Empower Everyday Convenience

Ready for a challenge?

Then Just Eat Takeaway.com might be the place for you. We’re a leading global online delivery platform, connecting tens of millions of customers with hundreds of thousands of restaurant, grocery, and convenience partners across the globe. 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 people to what they need, when they need it.

About this role

We are seeking a highly experienced and technically proficient Technology Manager to lead our Identity and Access Management (IAM) team. This mission-critical role is responsible for the strategy, execution, and operational stability of our complex, multi-tenant authentication and authorisation platform, built around multiple scaled Keycloak deployments. The successful candidate will drive the modernisation roadmap, enhance security posture, promote technical excellence through an inner-sourcing model, and significantly expand the team’s technical capabilities in new stacks.

Reporting to: Manager Software Development

These are some of the key components to the position:

Strategic Leadership & Architecture

• Define and execute the long-term technical roadmap for the IAM platform, balancing the deprecation of legacy authentication services with the strategic evolution of the federated Keycloak architecture.
• Develop robust, scalable strategies for authentication and authorisation across distinct user personas (internal users, partners, logistics personnel, different end-customers) and various endpoints (users, devices/IoT, API-to-API communication, and more).
• Design and champion a unified security posture, including advanced bot and credential stuffing mitigation strategies implemented across CDN, WAF, and application layers.
• Oversee the design and implementation of a scalable, real-time event-driven architecture (e.g., Kafka) for security monitoring and event processing.

Technical & Team Development

• Lead, mentor, and manage a blended team of Backend Engineers (Java/Quarkus) and Frontend Developers (Vue.js).
• Prioritise and execute a comprehensive up-skilling and cross-training programme to build internal expertise in C#.NET and significantly expand infrastructure and DevOps knowledge within the team.
• Cultivate a culture of high performance and agility, leveraging and promoting the inner-sourcing model to drive feature delivery, enhance code quality, and increase efficiency across the wider engineering organisation.
• Instill strong soft skills (e.g., collaboration, ownership) necessary for successful inner-sourcing and cross-functional delivery.

Operational Excellence & Governance

• Ensure service stability, resilience, and compliance for all critical IAM services, establishing and tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) and non-functional requirements (NFRs).
• Drive the adoption of an effective, modular authorisation framework (e.g., ABAC, ReBAC) to manage fine-grained access control at massive scale.
• Manage technical debt associated with legacy systems while securing the necessary resources for modernisation efforts.

What will you bring to the team?

• Technical Depth: Extensive experience with complex, scaled Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, specifically involving Keycloak or similar open-source Identity Providers (IdPs).
• Architecture at Scale: Proven experience designing and operating distributed, highly available, and high-throughput systems, including event-driven architectures (Kafka/messaging).
• Hands-on Stack Experience: Strong background in Java ecosystem (Quarkus/Spring) and exposure to modern frontend frameworks. Experience or direct knowledge of C#.NET is a significant advantage.
• Security Expertise: Deep understanding of modern authentication protocols (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect) and enterprise security challenges (bot mitigation, machine-to-machine authentication).
• Leadership: Demonstrated experience leading and scaling software engineering teams or senior/staff engineers.

Desired Attributes

• Familiarity with the challenges of managing federated identity across multiple deployments or realms.
• Prior success implementing or significantly leveraging an inner-sourcing model in a large technology organisation.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to articulate technical decisions in terms of business risk and value.

At JET, this is on the menu:

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.

Fun, fast-paced and supportive, the JET culture is about movement, growth and about celebrating every aspect of our JETers. Thanks to them we stay one step ahead of the competition.