Deliveroo

machine learning engineer for grocery and retail

In short

This role builds and improves ranking and personalisation models to bring grocery and retail verticals to Deliveroo's app alongside its core restaurant ordering experience. It's for a global three-sided marketplace company, within the New Verticals team, focused on growing active usage through ML-driven recommendations and notification targeting. Requires at least 3 years as an ML Engineer or Data Scientist, strong production Python skills, and experience with personalisation, ranking, or recommender systems.

About the Role
Deliveroo is part of a global, three-sided marketplace serving millions of customers, riders, and partners. Its New Verticals team aims to grow monthly active usage beyond restaurant ordering by bringing groceries, retail, and other services to users through the app.
Responsibilities
•Build and improve ranking models for grocery and retail vertical landing pages
•Design models that integrate new-vertical content into the restaurant-focused homepage without disrupting the core experience
•Build personalisation models that use existing user behaviour to recommend new verticals
•Contribute to notification targeting, including audience, message, and timing, to drive adoption of new verticals
Requirements
•At least 3 years of experience as an ML Engineer or Data Scientist
•Ability to write high-quality production code in Python
•Experience with end-to-end model productionisation
•A preference for simplicity and impact
•Background in personalisation, ranking, or recommender systems
Nice to have: exposure to causal inference or uplift modelling
Conditions
•Competitive salary and equity options
•Hybrid working, with 3 days in the office
•Flexible working and continuous learning

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