Senior Engineer, Kotlin/Java - (Logistics Optimisation, Routing Experimentation)

Company Description

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 Senior Engineer, Kotlin/Java - (Logistics Optimisation, Routing Experimentation) to join our team. 

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.

You will become an integral part of the Experimentation squad, owning an ecosystem used by algorithm engineers and operations to simulate real-life behaviour of food delivery fleets with experimental features and configurations. We run dozens of city-scale simulations to provide insights about new hypotheses and features performances, to let only the best of them reach the AB testing stage in real life.

Our squad is an important part of the Optimisation domain, that makes sure that our order delivery gets profitable and faster every day.

• Be technical expert: demonstrate technical savviness and expertise in programming languages, frameworks, databases. Be an inspiration for peers and junior colleagues.

• Own your software: own the process of architecture design for squad services. Monitor and improve the existing service landscape. Make effective and weighted decisions while building scalable and resilient software. Implement monitoring and alerting.

• Be autonomous: effectively manage your own time.

• Be a mentor: inspire by example and help to grow junior colleagues, actively mentoring them through knowledge sharing and pair programming.

• Be an important part of the team: help the team to improve the team processes, share opinions, ideas, best practices. Grow and succeed as a whole.

• Understand the domain: understand the real needs of the users and help Product to solve their problems. Be ready to dive in and study the business domain and propose your own ideas.

Qualifications

• You have 5+ years of overall professional application development experience.

• You worked in agile and scrum, aware of estimations and sprints.

• Proficiency in Kotlin (preferably) or Java.

• Understanding of service-oriented, microservices architectural patterns and CI/CD.

• Experience with: SQL and NoSQL databases, Grafana, Prometheus, AWS (or similar Cloud platforms).

• You own your software end to end, including cloud deployment and monitoring.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge on distributed systems and horizontal scalability topics.

• Experience with highly concurrent system and multi-threading.

• Experience with infrastructure-related technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker.

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 t