Director of Engineering

About Delivery Hero

Delivery Hero is building the next generation global online food ordering platform. Our awesome international team already operates in over 40 countries worldwide. We feature an environment with feedback exchange throughout the company from people who are genuine, ambitious and fun. We are looking for passionate and smart people to join us on our mission. Our ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, innovative, and good at “getting things done“. Play an active role in our future. An exciting job opportunity in the heart of Berlin is waiting for you.

Position

We are looking for a Director of Engineering to join our Restaurant Partner Solutions team to develop products that serve our restaurants globally. More than a million orders daily that are being transmitted to our vendors give a unique opportunity to push the boundaries and make a global difference.

Your mission:

• Own backend services handling tens of thousands of restaurants, hundreds of thousands of orders per day, millions of events per hour
• Connect client apps (android, web, windows) to various external services (delivery and logistics platforms)
• Guide the evolution of our systems architecture
• Mentor and grow your people and teams
• Foster an excellent engineering organizational setup and process
• Ensure scalability, stability, security and performance of the systems and services you own
• Drive both quarterly and long-term objectives and key results with full responsibility for executing the OKRs
• Collaborate closely with product management and other departments to build new products and features that match business requirements with pragmatic technical solutions

Your qualification

• 8+ years of experience with a key focus on modern web applications and cloud services
• Experience building large scale distributed systems
• Hands-on approach towards leading by example
• You embrace modern engineering practices and have a strong track record of effective communication across engineering, product and business teams
• You are passionate about building and leading excellent tech teams
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of several of the following technologies would be beneficial: AWS, Java, Typescript, async and event-based processing, server-side APIs, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm. Monitoring, logging, debugging of high volume services (metric collection, log analysis, etc.)

What we offer

• Educational budget for conferences and external trainings to develop your skills
• An opportunity to exchange ideas and meet fellow developers at regular meetups, in our active guilds and during our Developer Exchange Program
• Company parties, hackathons, cultural, and sports events
• English is our working language, and our colleagues at Delivery Hero come from every corner of the globe, so you'll be working in a truly diverse, cross-cultural team
• A corporate pension scheme
• Daily fruits, cereals, beverages, tea, and coffee in our lounges
• Free German language classes, access to our e-learning platform, and participation in our in-house trainings
• An opportunity to enjoy massages, get your haircut in the office, join our free yoga classes, or take a timeout in our nap room

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of Delivery Hero.