Staff Software Engineer

Be our next Hero! - Join the world’s leading local delivery platform.

We are looking for a **Staff Software-Engineer (Kafka, Kotlin) - (Logistics) (all genders)**to join the Customer Logistics Choice Domain on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences.

The services of the Choice Domain determine which restaurants and shops a customer can order from. This step is essential for the entire conversion funnel - and our products make sure customers have the best possible choice in all places and at all times. For that we need to consider the unique topology of each city and the dynamic state of the fleet in real time. A challenging task given the high volume of requests and low latency demands.

You will work closely with the feature teams to drive the reliability, quality, scalability and efficiency of our services.

If you're a creative problem solver who is hungry for a new adventure, an international workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Berlin!

Your mission:

• Drive tech improvements for our services together with EMs: Identify architectural blockers, reliability risks and cost leaks (“the problems”), determine ballpark effort, risk and benefit of possible solutions, avoiding any over-engineering, prioritize and plan of solutions
• Consult/inform domain leads whenever the decision between risk, opportunity and costs is non-trivial.
• Serve as the information radiator between domain leads, EMs, teams and relevant groups in Logistics and DH (Foundation/GDP, reliability council, WOR, guilds and chapters.
• Participate in the tribe’s Backend chapter and provide input on tribe-level technical topics.
• Solve the most critical problems for the domain that are beyond the scope of any squad while building consensus and sharing understanding of the solution.
• Promote best practices across the teams

Requirements

Your heroic skills:

• Very deep understanding & proven experience of JVM-based technologies (Kotlin knowledge is a plus)
• Experience with complex microservice architectures, event-driven topologies using Kafka, and their observability
• You have a deep understanding of the software stack, cloud infrastructure and networking and you can be hands-on in all of them when needed
• You contribute completely autonomously, creating transparency of your work for your Tech Lead and all the EM/teams you interact with.
• You have excellent communication skills and can clearly explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• You curious about the business goals our systems are serving

Nice to have:

• You are passionate about technology and are not afraid to put forward and defend your opinions where needed.
• You have a track record of sharing knowledge in brown bag session, blog post or conferences.

Additional information

At Delivery Hero, 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. Just be yourself and we can’t wait to see what value you bring to the role. We're as interested in your character as we are in your talent.