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

TN Germany; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Join a forward-thinking company as an Engineering Manager in the Logistics Workforce Tribe. In this pivotal role, you'll lead a talented team to tackle high-impact challenges in last-mile delivery, enhancing experiences for riders and customers alike. Your expertise in Kotlin and Java will guide technical direction, while your leadership will empower engineers to innovate and optimize delivery operations. This position offers an exciting opportunity to make a real difference in the gig economy, driving efficiency and sustainability in logistics. If you're passionate about technology and team leadership, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifikationen

• Min. 2 years of leadership experience in engineering.
• Familiarity with Kotlin/JVM and core programming concepts.

Aufgaben

• Lead and empower a talented team of engineers.
• Partner with product counterparts to design feasible solutions.

Kenntnisse

Kotlin

Java

API-based communication

Event-based communication

Leadership

Infrastructure as Code (IaaC)

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Jobbeschreibung

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Client:

Delivery Hero

Location:

Berlin, Germany

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

03.05.2025

Expiry Date:

17.06.2025

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Job Description:

Job Description

We are on the lookout for an Engineering Manager, Java/Kotlin - Logistics, Workforce to join the Logistics Workforce Tribe / Payments & Incentives Domain 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:

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.

In this role you will,

Lead and empower a talented team of engineers

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 (HTTP, 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.

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 have:

You or your team utilized data science models to empower product.

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