Junior Platform Engineer (m/f/d)

Company Description

Flink is the leading quick commerce player in Europe. We are on a mission to give people back time: You can order your groceries through our app and we deliver to your doorstep in minutes. We carry 3,000 products with a focus on the leading brands in each category. We aim for sustainability by making deliveries on electric bikes and utilizing recyclable packaging.

Flink launched in February 2021 and already operates in more than 90 cities in Germany, and the Netherlands. The business generated more than EUR 400m in revenues in 2022 and is operationally profitable. Flink is backed by the world’s most renowned tech investors, including Prosus, Mubadala, and Bond, and strategic investors like Doordash and REWE. We take great pride in being an inclusive employer that offers equal opportunities, and we celebrate the diversity and multiculturalism of our team. We're growing fast and always pushing ourselves to do better - we play for #1.

In your role as a Junior Platform Engineer (m/f/d), you will accelerate our engineering organization by enhancing the software development lifecycle across all of our engineering teams. You will focus on improving tools and processes that enable our engineers to deliver high-quality software efficiently and reliably through improving CI/CD, adopting automated testing, and implementing site reliability engineering practices.

Job Description

• Enable engineers to consistently deliver value to our customers by providing tools and processes for automated testing, software quality and observability
• Build tools to drive the use of CI/CD and the adoption of platform components by our engineering teams
• Develop and advocate for automated testing practices, from unit tests to end-to-end production tests
• Implement and oversee quality assurance tools like SonarCloud to ensure high code quality
• Build and maintain adaptable testing tools and frameworks that simplify the integration of automated testing into the development process
• Contribute to our observability and incident process using tools like Datadog and Incident.io
• Collaborate with product engineers to improve software delivery processes
• Share knowledge and best practices to foster a culture of continuous improvement and learning
  
  

Qualifications

• Passionate about improving the software delivery through automation and continuous improvement
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages: Golang, Kotlin, Python, Typescript, or similar
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and related tools (e.g., GitHub Actions or GitLab CI)
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure etc.)
• Experience with automated testing on integration and end-to-end testing
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog)
• Open-minded, collaborative, and comfortable working in an Agile environment.
• Motivated, proactive, and a passion for helping others and improving processes
• Fluent English communication skills
  
  

Additional Information

• A €1000 annual L&D budget as well as individual coaching options to ensure you have plenty of opportunities to learn, grow and achieve your goals
• 26 days of vacation, +1 day every year up to a maximum of 30 days
• A mobility budget of 30 EUR per month with NAVIT, which you can use individually for Uber, BVG and many other providers
• A cool discount on your Urban Sports Club membership
• Attractive company pension options
• Unlimited access to an e-learning and development platform, MyAcademy, including online German courses
• Online discounts with Corporate Benefits and Future Bens
• A cool discount off your personal Flink orders; be the first to test out new products!
• A modern and dog-friendly office in the heart of Berlin - lots of delicious lunch spots available within short walking distance
  
  

It is our commitment that every applicant will be evaluated according to their skills regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, or religion.