Senior Director Engineering, Quick-Commerce

Job Description

As the Senior Director of Engineering for QC Growth , you will be the visionary leader behind the engines that power our global Q-Commerce ambition. You aren’t just managing code; you are overseeing a massive, distributed ecosystem—from global content and catalog systems as well as promo tool to high-concurrency graph API services to cutting-edge AI data products.

Leading an organization of 100+ engineers across multiple tribes and domains, you will bridge the gap between complex distributed systems and world-class customer experiences. Your goal is to simplify the complex, scale the successful, and mentor the next generation of technical leaders in the heart of Berlin.

Furthermore, you will closely work and collaborate with our various brands around the world, to build an optimized solution for their needs while driving for alignment to reduce overall complexity. If you're a creative problem solver who is eager to deliver solutions and hungry for a new adventure, an international workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Berlin!

Your mission:

• Strategic Leadership: Own the technical roadmap for the QC Growth product line, driving long-term OKRs that align engineering excellence with aggressive business growth.

• Scaling Excellence: Direct a 100-person engineering organization, fostering a culture of high performance, psychological safety, and continuous improvement.

• Architectural Stewardship: Act as the North Star for architectural decisions, ensuring our microservices—handling massive global traffic—are resilient, scalable, and secure.

• Data Innovation: Oversee the evolution of our central QC data pipelines, transforming raw data into "first-class" products especially in the area of category classification, affordability perception, and content enrichment.

• Global Collaboration: Partner with international brands across 70 countries to build localized solutions while maintaining a unified, low-complexity global platform.

• Organizational Evolution: Boldly lead organizational design, hiring, and talent development to ensure the team is structured for maximum velocity and impact.

Qualifications

Your heroic skills:

• The Track Record: 8+ years of engineering leadership, with at least 4 years managing multiple managers/teams in a large-scale, distributed microservices environment.

• Technical Depth: A deep understanding of modern stacks. You should be fluent in at least 70% of our ecosystem: Golang, Python, Java, Postgres, TypeScript, Kafka, GraphQL, BigQuery, gRPC, and Kubernetes (AWS/GCP).

• Operational Mastery: You have a "systems thinking" mindset, with expert-level knowledge of service-oriented architecture, cloud-native infrastructure, and high-concurrency troubleshooting.

• Business Acumen: You don’t just ship features; you move metrics. You are comfortable translating business KPIs into technical requirements and vice-versa.

• People First: You are a passionate mentor. You take pride in growing Directors and Engineering Managers, building a "talent magnet" organization.

• The Agile Mindset: You thrive in fast-paced, fault-tolerant environments where "done" is better than "perfect," but "excellent" is the baseline.

• Language & Travel: You speak fluent English and are willing to travel once a quarter.

Bonus Points:

• A proven history of building e-commerce or marketplace models at scale.

• Hands-on experience with Machine Learning integration and large-scale data products.

Additional Information

Why Delivery Hero?

• Exchange ideas and meet colleagues from different teams in our active guilds and through our global tech & product community.

• We offer visa & relocation support globally to our permanent employees.

Have we caught your attention?​ If you are looking for an environment where our company DNA is defined by our values and People Leadership Principles , please send us your CV.

We’re looking forward to your application!

About us:

Delivery Hero Tech is playing an exceptional role in the large growth of our company. Our Tech teams leverage a diverse stack to create cutting-edge solutions which cover the full customer experience - starting with a great online search experience and ending with a real-time delivery at your doorstep.

Read about the latest updates from our Tech & Product teams on our blog .

Delivery Hero is building the next generation global on-demand delivery platform. We have grown rapidly from inception in 2011 to become the world's largest food-ordering network and we’re now innovating and creating new verticals such as groceries, pharmacies, flowers and other convenience articles in multiple markets.

Our awesome international team already operates in 70+ countries worldwide and we are looking for the most talented people to join us on our mission to ‘always deliver an amazing experience.’ If you’re an enthusiastic problem solver and hungry for a new adventure, an exciting job and multicultural workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Berlin!

At Delivery Hero, we believe diversity and representation is 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 race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or any other aspect that makes you, you.

Have we caught your attention?​ If you are looking for an environment where our company DNA is defined by our values, please send us your CV.

Find out more information on how to prepare for your technical interview here .

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 let us know with an email to our Inclusion Officer at [email protected] it in your application.

Severely disabled applicants with equal qualifications will be given preferential consideration.

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