Staff Software Engineer - AdTech Demand

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 looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our AdTech tribe in Berlin. You will act as a technical leader within our Demand Adtech Domain, driving the architectural vision of our next-generation AdTech products. This platform empowers restaurants and local shops to promote themselves and reach new customers at a massive scale.

 

You will play a pivotal role in a geographically distributed tribe of over 14 squads. While our squads move quickly with a "we build it, we run it" principle, your role is to ensure these solutions are cohesive, scalable, and future-proof. You will bridge the gap between business goals and technical execution, optimizing the customer experience across more than 10 million orders per day.

 

Your Mission:

• Architectural Leadership: Drive cross-domain and cross-tribe architecture discussions. Challenge the status quo, identify bottlenecks in our microservices ecosystem, and design robust, high-availability solutions that scale with our 10M+ daily orders.
• Strategic Vision: Craft a long-term vision for the AdTech platform’s evolution. Partner with Engineering and Product Management to define technical OKRs for the tribe and domain, balancing feature delivery with technical debt reduction.
• Engineering Excellence: Set standards for code quality, testing, and observability. Lead by example in coding and system design, and mentor Senior Engineers to help them grow into the next generation of leaders.
• Scalability & Performance: Design and optimize complex backend services. Ensure our systems can handle high throughput and low latency, integrating best practices for Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure.
• Collaboration: Act as a bridge between squads. Ensure that individual components built by different teams integrate seamlessly into the wider AdTech ecosystem to create a cohesive platform.

• 12+ years of software development experience, with significant proven experience building and delivering distributed systems at scale.
• Expert-level proficiency in backend languages. You don't just write code; you define how code should be written. Strong knowledge of microservices architecture, event-driven design, and cloud-native patterns. You can visualize the "big picture" and troubleshoot complex cross-service issues.
• Deep understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and database design. Proficiency in working with and optimizing Relational and/or NoSQL databases for performance.
• Expert knowledge of logging, monitoring, and alerting strategies (Grafana, Datadog, NewRelic, Prometheus) to maintain high system reliability.
• Ability to lead and drive technical initiatives across multiple teams. You are comfortable presenting architecture reviews and influencing stakeholders without direct authority.

Nice to have: 

• Experience with core GenAI concepts (LLM, Multi-Modal, Vision Models) and experience with text, image, video, or audio generation.
• Active involvement in the tech community (meet-ups, conferences, or open-source projects).
• Experience in Adtech Products.

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.

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.