Principal Software Engineer, Backend

Principal Software Engineer, Backend

Nine Elms, London. Full time

You'll need the right to work in the UK and be based in London. We are not able to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

About Zapp

We deliver the essentials in minutes, 24/7, from our own network of stores. Every order is a real-time race against the clock, and the systems that win it are the backend you would own.

Quick commerce is a genuinely hard backend problem. Stock changes by the second, orders and riders move in real time, and we make sub-minute promises we have to keep, at high throughput with no room for downtime. Getting that right, fast and reliably, is the job.

We're AI-first and we mean it as a way of working, not a slogan: AI-assisted development is part of the daily toolkit, we ship LLM-powered features w...