Senior Manager, Software Engineering - (Consumer)

Delivery Hero SE; Deutschland; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Educational budget 1,000€

Health & well-being programs

Meal and transport benefits

Employee share purchase plan

Job summary

Delivery Hero SE, headquartered in Berlin, seeks a Senior Manager of Software Engineering to lead the Global Recommendations and Ranking domain. You will supervise engineering managers, set an 18‑month domain direction with product partners, and drive a unified platform strategy across brands and markets.

You will collaborate with Product, Data Science, Platform, and Operations to ensure scalable, data‑driven, personalized experiences for millions of users, while maintaining budget discipline

Qualifications

• Experience leading multiple engineering squads or managers.
• Hands-on shipping of recommendation, ranking, or personalization systems in production.
• Ability to turn fuzzy business problems into realistic multi-quarter roadmaps.
• People leadership and performance management at domain scale.
• Collaborates effectively with Product, Data Science, Platform and Operations in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead the domain's engineering squads through the managers who report to you, with a delegation framework of clear priorities
• Set direction with your product counterpart: co-own the domain vision and mission with an 18-month horizon
• Grow and coach your engineering managers, hire strong new ones where needed, and prepare the domain for performance reviews
• Sponsor the migration from legacy recommendation services to a unified global platform with reusable components
• Keep cross-squad delivery on track: detect blockers, escalate when needed, and use delivery metrics to improve
• Run the domain with discipline: documented practices, reliability, budgets, and security in production services

Skills

Engineering leadership

Managing managers

Domain strategy

People leadership

Delivery excellence

Cross-functional

English communication

Strategy & roadmap

Tools

Go

Python

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Event streaming

Job description

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 around 65 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 push hard, learn quickly and stay human along the way. It’s this wonderful mix of high performance and real community that makes Delivery Hero a place where ambition and belonging grow side by side. If you’re curious, collaborative and ready to dive deep into meaningful work, you’ll fit right in.

Job Description

Clear goals. Strong teams. Real results. As a Senior Manager, Software Engineering, you’ll lead the domain that decides what millions of customers see across Delivery Hero brands every day, from vendor and product swimlanes to ranking, personalisation and ML serving. You’ll lead through a team of engineering managers, set an 18-month direction with your product counterpart, and build a delivery system that runs without you on the critical path.

The Global Recommendations and Ranking domain builds and runs the services that serve, rank and orchestrate recommendations for many Delivery Hero brands. We work closely with data science, ML engineering, product and platform teams.

At Delivery Hero, you’ll shape the global consumer experience for millions of users. Your work will have a direct impact on how we attract and retain customers, creating data-driven, personalized interactions that keep them coming back. As part of our Consumer Team, you’ll enhance customer satisfaction and drive global growth and profitability through innovative projects.

• Lead the domain's engineering squads through the managers who report to you, with a delegation framework of clear priorities and shared success measures
• Set direction with your product counterpart: co‑own the domain vision and mission, and turn tribe goals into domain goals with an 18‑month horizon
• Grow and coach your engineering managers, hire strong new ones where needed, and prepare the domain for performance reviews together with your people partner
• Sponsor the migration from legacy recommendation services to a unified global platform, holding the line on shared components, model reuse and technical KPIs
• Keep cross‑squad delivery on track: detect blockers and dependencies early, Escalate outside the domain when needed, and use delivery metrics to find and fix inefficiencies
• Run the domain with discipline: documented and reviewed engineering practices, reliability and incident learning, the domain budget (together with your Director), and security vulnerabilities resolved within SLA

Qualifications

• Several years of engineering leadership, including managing managers or leading three or more squads, with a track record of scaling impact through others
• Hands‑on experience shipping and running recommendation, ranking, search or personalisation systems in production, with enough depth to challenge design decisions on real‑time inference, model serving, feature pipelines and experimentation, in a stack like ours (Go, Python, Kubernetes, AWS and GCP, event streaming)
• Strategy and goal setting: you turn a fuzzy business problem and a tribe goal into a realistic multi‑quarter roadmap and keep many stakeholders aligned to it
• People leadership: you have grown engineers into managers, attracted top talent, and handled performance management at domain scale
• Delivery and operational excellence: you measure a domain with standard delivery and technical KPIs, improve them without micromanaging, and have tracked a budget alongside a senior leader and defined a security approach for production services
• Partnership as an equal with Product, Data Science, Platform and Operations, and clear communication in written and spoken English

Nice to have

• Experience migrating legacy services to a shared platform across multiple brands or markets
• Experience with feature stores, vector databases or large‑scale A/B experimentation platforms
• Background in search, ranking, personalisation or relevance engineering in food delivery, e‑commerce or marketplaces
• Experience applying LLMs and agentic tooling to engineering workflows and customer‑facing 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.
• 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
• Digital Meal Vouchers and Food Vouchers.

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