Lead Software Engineer - Python

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.

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Position

• Support an established team of engineers in their day to day development experience, their personal development, and long term career growth.
• You’ll develop an application powering our optimization of delivery areas and coverage, which requires data analysis both on the API backend and on the database level.
• Be responsible for a set of applications completely owned by the team - we give our teams a great deal of autonomy in technical decisions and you will be expected to leverage the team’s skills and knowledge, but also to bring in your experience and insight.
• The applications you own are deployed globally to many brands belonging to the Delivery Hero family, you will work with a tech stack running 24/7. Fortunately, you will come to a stable environment, but it’s something we all actively take care of.
• We are heavily invested in automation and continuous integration and it has become a cornerstone of all of our processes. 

Your qualification

• Leadership skills - an emphatic and respected leader.
• Passion for Python and its mindset.
• You will encounter other languages such as Ruby, Java or JavaScript (e.g. React.js on the frontend) and you are open-minded about other technologies.
• You know how to go deeper in an RDBMS and optimize a tough query, we Postgres w/ PostGIS for a lot of our geo calculations.
• Possibly experience with a cloud setup: our compute platform is primarily Kubernetes providing us a great service and we are heavily reliant on AWS, we automate the provisioning of nearly every resource.
• Being comfortable with microservices architectures, API-based and event-based communication.
• You are a pragmatic programmer who understands what is needed to get things done.
• You believe in cross-functional teams and know that responsibility does not end with deployment. 

What we offer

• Develop your skills with your educational budget for conferences and external trainings.
• Exchange ideas and meet fellow developers at regular meetups and in our active guilds.
• Get to know your colleagues during 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, working in diverse, cross-cultural teams.
• Flexible working hours, with the option of home office.
• Save responsibly with our corporate pension scheme.
• Enjoy fresh fruits, cereals, beverages, tea and coffee in our lounges.  
• Take a break with Kicker or table tennis.
• Take a timeout in our nap room.
• Learn German with free classes, access our e-learning platform and participate in our inhouse trainings.
• Enjoy massages or get your hair cut in the office.

Additional details

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