Senior Engineer, Java/Kotlin - (Logistics, Choice)

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Java/Kotlin to join the Demand Management Team within the Choice 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.

As part of the Demand Management Team, you'll contribute to improving customer journeys through vendor availability and smart shrinking strategies. Imagine the impact on our growth and profitability by calculating the best choice for our customers across our diverse portfolio of brands, including Woowa, Talabat, foodpanda, PedidosYa, Glovo, HungerStation, and the wider Delivery Hero group. Every line of code you write directly impacts millions of users. Be a key player in this journey:

• Be technical expert: Demonstrate technical savviness and expertise in programming languages, frameworks, and 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 support the growth of junior colleagues by actively mentoring them through knowledge sharing and pair programming.

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

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

• Be an aim higher: Build scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems  by driving seamless reliability and observability.

• 5+ years of overall professional application development experience.

• Hands-on proficiency in Java and Kotlin, with a strong focus on distributed systems.

• Deep expertise in designing and implementing microservices and service-oriented architectures.

• Experience with designing and maintaining highly available messaging systems using Kafka in MSK.

• Experience with SQL and NoSQL database, AWS or similar cloud platforms.

• Experience with observability and monitoring tools like Grafana and Prometheus.

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools like Spinnaker, Github Actions and Drone.

• Experience with DevOps tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, and Docker.

• Experience with gRPC is a plus.

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 to grow, collaborate and be part of the world’s leading delivery platform, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today!

We believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support to ensure a smooth interview experience—just include it in your application. You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.