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

Job Description

We are on the lookout for an Engineering Manager, Java/Kotlin - (Logistics, Workforce) to join the Logistics Workforce Tribe 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 Workforce Tribe Team:

• Riders are the backbone of last-mile delivery, which makes it possible to deliver millions of orders on a daily basis.

• Gross and net earnings, wallet to withdraw earnings, staffing and work scheduling, performance management, loyalty programs, personalized campaigns and goals, recruitment of new riders, documents management - this is what Workforce tribe does for a million riders.

• Rider experience with the Delivery Hero is the core metric of Workforce tribe, and you will be leading one of the squads directly impacting it.

Your role:

• 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 ( 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, as well as cares for their team's development

• 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.

Nice to haves:

• You worked in food delivery, ride-hailing, or similar companies within the gig economy.

• You have an experience of integrating AI tooling to the development process of your team.

• You or your team utilized data science models to empower products.

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, 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.

• Wondering what relocating to Berlin is like? In this article, we’ve put together 10 things you should know about moving to Berlin and how Delivery Hero can support you. You can also visit our relocation hub and check out more information about moving to Berlin.

• Ready to prepare for your interview? Check out the list of the 5 most common interview questions and answers created in collaboration with our recruiters.

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.

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