Software Engineer II, Kotlin/Java - (Logistics Optimisation, Routing Experimentation)

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 a Software Engineer II, Kotlin/Java - (Logistics Optimisation, Routing Experimentation) to join the Logistics Optimisation, Routing Experimentation team 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.

The Experimentation squad owns an ecosystem used by algorithm engineers and operations to simulate real-life behaviour of food delivery fleets. We run dozens of city-scale simulations per day to provide insights about new hypotheses and features performances, to let only the best of them reach the AB testing stage in real life. We also provide a management platform for configurations of our whole tribe, giving fine tuning capabilities as well as an operational overview of the delivery situation.

Our squad is an important part of the Optimisation domain, that makes sure that our order delivery gets profitable and faster every day.

• Be technical expert: demonstrate technical savviness and expertise in programming languages, frameworks, 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, own your software end to end, including design, cloud deployment and monitoring

• Be creative: share your ideas, challenge the status quo. 

• Be a team player: Grow and succeed together with the team, be collaborative and bring arguments to the discussion.

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

• 3+ years of professional application development experience.

• Work effectively in Agile/Scrum environments, contributing to estimations and sprint planning.

• Proficiency in Kotlin (preferred) or Java with Spring or Quarkus frameworks.

• Design and implement service-oriented and microservices architectures.

• Implement CI/CD pipelines and collaborate with modern development workflows.

• Utilize cloud and infrastructure technologies, including AWS (or similar), Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, and SQL/NoSQL databases.

Nice to have:

• Experience with monitoring tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.

• Knowledge of distributed systems and horizontal scalability topics.

• Experience with highly concurrent systems and multi-threading.

• Experience with languages such as TypeScript, Python, or Go, is a plus.

• Experience with the Micronaut framework.

• Experience in the Logistics domain.

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, 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.

• Wondering what relocating to Berlin is like? In this article, we’ve put together 10 things you should know about moving to Berlin  and how Delivery Hero can support you. You can also visit our relocation hub and check out more information about moving to Berlin.

• Ready to prepare for your interview? Check out the list of the 5 most common interview questions and answers created in collaboration with our recruiters.

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!

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