Senior Software Engineer, Java/Kotlin -(Quick Commerce)

Company Description

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.

Job Description

We are on the lookout for a Senior Software Engineer, Java/Kotlin - (Quick Commerce) to join the Local Shops on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences.

Be part of redefining how customers experience quick commerce. You'll help build technology that scales our non-food offerings, reaching new market segments and driving revenue growth. By innovating within our Quick Commerce Team, you'll make Delivery Hero the go-to platform for a broad range of products, helping us grow faster and deliver more value to customers around the world.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive technical decisions and architecture design for complex features and systems within the team domain.
• Own end-to-end design and implementation of distributed services, ensuring scalability, security, and cost-effectiveness.
• Mentor, conduct code reviews, and elevate team engineering standards through knowledge sharing and best practices.
• Lead technical initiatives and design solutions for complex problems involving event-driven architectures, data consistency, and performance optimization.
• Deliver automated, well-tested, production-grade features independently or in collaboration with teammates.
• Master the problem space and contribute to technical discovery, proposing suitable solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Handle incident management and troubleshooting of complex distributed systems issues.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Kotlin and Java, with a deep understanding of the JVM ecosystem.
• Proven experience with Spring Boot framework and Hibernate/JPA for data access.
• Solid understanding of event-driven architecture patterns and experience with message brokers (Kafka, SNS/SQS).
• Demonstrable skills with PostgreSQL, including query optimization and performance tuning.
• Experience with Redis for caching and distributed systems patterns (distributed locks, rate limiting).
• Proficiency in designing and implementing RESTful and gRPC APIs.
• Experience with AWS services (S3, RDS, SNS/SQS, Lambda) and infrastructure as code (Terraform).

Additional Information

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.

Working Model & Benefits

• Hybrid working model: Join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week.
• 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service.
• Professional Development: €1,000 Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support, and access to the Udemy Business platform.
• Health & Wellness: Health Checkups, Meditation, Gym & Bicycle Subsidy.
• Financial Benefits: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank, Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan.
• Food & Dining: Digital Meal Vouchers, Food Vouchers, Corporate Discounts.

Relocation & Interview Support

• Information on relocating to Berlin and support available from Delivery Hero.
• Preparation for interviews with common questions and answers.

Diversity & Inclusion

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 inclusion@deliveryhero.com.

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.

The diversity and inclusion statement is repeated for emphasis.

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!