Engineering Manager - Search (Consumer, Global Discovery)

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.

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.

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.

In this role you will,

• 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.

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 let us know with an email to our Inclusion Officer at [email protected] it in your application.

Severely disabled applicants with equal qualifications will be given preferential consideration.

You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.