Engineering Manager - Search (Consumer, Global Discovery)

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 for an Engineering Manager to lead one of our squads within the Search Retrieval Domain.

This squad builds and owns core services that enable customers to find the right restaurants, stores, and products across all our brands. These systems are critical to the user experience and must remain fast, reliable, and continuously improving.

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.

• You will guide a team of engineers, own the quality and operational health of your services, and partner closely with Product to deliver impactful features. If you enjoy building high-performing teams, driving end-to-end delivery, and owning services at scale, we’d love to hear from you.
• Lead & Grow a High-Performing Squad: Own team health, engagement, and inclusion, ensuring every engineer has growth opportunities. Develop engineers through regular 1:1s, structured feedback, clear expectations, and performance management. Hire and onboard talent while contributing to domain-wide recruiting efforts.
• Own Technical and Delivery Outcomes: Guide technical decisions in a Go/Java/Python environment and ensure strong engineering standards. Lead your team in delivering high-quality, maintainable, and scalable services. Ensure reliable sprint execution, proactive risk management, and transparent stakeholder communication.
• Drive Operational Excellence: Maintain the reliability of your services through robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response. Ensure on-call readiness, runbooks, and post-mortems are part of the squad’s culture. Continuously improve key delivery and operational metrics (cycle time, deployment frequency, availability).
• Partner with Product to Deliver Impact: Translate product goals into actionable engineering work with clear priorities. Help scope features, propose alternatives when needed, and balance speed with technical health. Keep the squad aligned with business objectives and user value.

• Proven architectural excellence and strong leadership experience.
• Strong People Leadership: You have experience mentoring engineers, fostering inclusion, giving structured feedback, and building a positive, productive team environment.
• Technical Ownership: You are comfortable working with backend engineers in Go, Java, or Python. You can guide solution design, review code, ensure quality, and make sound engineering trade-offs.
• Delivery & Operational Maturity: You know how to run a predictable delivery process, manage dependencies, and ensure service reliability through monitoring, on-call practices, and incidents handled with rigor.