The food delivery service’s announcement follows its acquisition of the software design and development firm Cultivate last year. In August 2019, Deliveroo said that it hoped to create 50 high-skilled tech jobs within three years through the acquisition.

The existing team will move from the city’s technology incubator CodeBase to a new HQ in Edinburgh in April 2020.

These new highly-skilled jobs will:

• Be made up of software engineers, product managers, data scientists, and designers;
• Be focused on the continued growth of the payment systems Deliveroo has built as part of its mission to become the financial growth partner of choice for its restaurants and riders;
• Build on existing work to give riders flexible access to their earnings through features such as ‘Cash Out’, where riders can choose to be paid the next day;
• Work on global projects, including new tools and features to help restaurant partners run and grow their business, support their financial planning and budgeting, and build on the benefits Deliveroo offers via its food purchasing products.

The Edinburgh hub will eventually house other areas of the company’s technical organisation, which includes teams focused on consumers, riders and restaurants.

Continuing its commitment to supporting the Edinburgh technology scene, Deliveroo’s tech hub in Scotland is supporting a range of local community projects, including:

• Prewired, helping young people learn software development skills;
• Codebar, helping teach programming skills to under represented groups;
• Queercode, supporting LGBTQ+ people in Scotland with an interest in technology;
• Digital Skills for Girls, a non-profit organisation working to close the gender gap in technology by teaching girls computer science.

Deliveroo is also confirmed as headline sponsor for Turing Fest 2020, a conference attended by 3,000 international attendees.