Manager, Engineering, Java/Kotlin - (Logistics, Workforce)

As the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide, powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. We enable creative minds to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero.

Job Description

We are on the lookout for an Engineering Manager, Java/Kotlin - Logistics, Workforce to join the Rider Hiring team on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences.

In our Logistics Team, you’ll tackle high-impact challenges that make last-mile delivery efficient, affordable, and sustainable. Your work will directly improve experiences for riders, end customers, and merchants across the globe. Each enhancement you contribute will help Delivery Hero optimize delivery operations, supporting expansion into new areas like grocery and retail.

The Rider Hiring team team’s core objectives are:

• Quick conversion: Speed up the entire funnel, from lead generation to delivering their first order.
• Cost efficiency: Maximize the return on investment in recruitment by reducing manual effort and marketing spend.
• Quality & accurate supply: Focus on high-quality applicants and only hire what is truly needed based on supply/demand data.
  
  

In this role you will,

• Lead and empower a talented team of engineers
• Partner with your product counterpart and provide technical direction to your team, facilitating the design of feasible and iterative solutions aligned with the business needs.
• Own the tech metrics and KPIs of your team, ensuring full visibility, tracking, and alerting.
• Support and enhance the incident resolution process and team on-call practices.
• Provide technical and non-technical mentorship to junior team members.
• Navigate and manage both technical and non-technical stakeholders, effectively addressing and overcoming challenges
  
  

Qualifications

• You are familiar with the Kotlin/JVM and programming language agnostic with a clear understanding of core concepts, and paradigms, and can abstract this knowledge to multiple scenarios.
• You are comfortable with both API-based (HTTP, gRPC) and event-based communication (SNS/SQS, Kafka).
• You are a pragmatic person who understands what should get done and what is needed to get things done.
• You are a knowledgeable technical guide, with min. 2 years of leadership experience, who aligns with and supports product and business goals.
• You believe in cross-functional teams (Backend, Frontend, DataScience, Operations, Analytics) and have experience managing dependencies across tasks and teams.
• You have experience working with IaaC (Infrastructure as Code) setups; most of our infrastructure runs on Kubernetes deployed with Helm and terraform in AWS.
• You care about your team and your own personal and professional development.
  
  

Nice to have:

• You or your team utilized data science models to empower product.
• You worked in food delivery, ride-hailing, or similar companies within the gig economy.
  
  

Additional Information

Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after, happy, and healthy is always on the menu. Because if you’re in good shape, then we’re in good shape.

• Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week
• We offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service
• We will support you in developing yourself and your career growth opportunities: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.
• Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Meditation, Yoga, Gym & Bicycle Subsidy
• Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we’ll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank, Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan
• The power of getting together over some food is unrivaled. Here are a few ways to help you do that. All the yum: Digital Meal Vouchers, Food Vouchers, Corporate Discounts. Courses.
  
  

Ready to join our team? If you’re excited to grow, collaborate and be part of the world’s leading delivery platform, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today!

We believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support to ensure a smooth interview experience—just include it in your application. You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.