Senior Engineer (Java/Kotlin) Vendor Growth, Orders Success

We build. We deliver. We lead.

We build the world's largest on-demand delivery platform.

We are an international community of entrepreneurs at heart who are passionate problem solvers.

We enable ambitious talent to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt.

This comes with a growth opportunity across the most exciting corners of the world. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead.

We are Delivery Hero.

About the opportunity

We are on the lookout of a Senior Engineer (Java/Kotlin) to join the mission-critical Orders Success Squad within Delivery Hero's Vendor Growth Product Line!

Who we are

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 over 70+ 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 enable creative minds to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero.

• As a Senior Engineer, you'll be at the heart of our global operations, responsible for processing approximately 7 million food and grocery orders every single day. This is a hands-on role where you'll drive best practices in development, architecture, deployments, stability, observability, and performance for our central services.

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with a strong preference for distributed systems and hands-on proficiency with Java, Kotlin, and frameworks like Spring/Spring Boot, Hibernate, and JUnit.
• Deep expertise in service-oriented & microservices architectural patterns, including troubleshooting and optimizing scalable systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP & AWS services such as RDS, DDB, Lambda, CW, EC2, SQS, SNS, Cognito, Kinesis).
• Proficiency with DevOps tools (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Spinnaker, GitHub Actions, Drone, Travis, CircleCI).
• Demonstrated expertise in writing high-quality tests (unit, integration, E2E).
• Eagerness to contribute to the well-compensated Firefighter/On-call roster, ensuring the reliability of our systems
• Nice to have:
• Experience with performance optimization techniques (caching, SQL query optimization, monitoring, profiling).
• Familiarity with error reporting and monitoring tools (Grafana, Sentry, Datadog, New Relic).
• An interest in understanding or contributing to frontend logic (ReactJS, Native Android, Flutter).