Senior Software Engineer, Golang (Logistics Deliveries, Global Service Tech)

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 Senior Software Engineer (Golang) to join the Global Service Tech team in Logistics on our journey to 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 worldwide. Each enhancement you contribute will help Delivery Hero optimise delivery operations, supporting expansion into new areas like grocery and retail.

The Deliveries Tribe, within the Rider Product Line, is responsible for the core experience of order delivery. This encompasses three key domains: Order Management, which handles order status, entry points from consumer apps, and issue management; Rider Fundamentals, which focuses on the rider experience, including essential functions like login, shift management, communications, and tools to optimize their delivery operations; and Delivery Flow, which orchestrates the delivery process itself, from order assignment and acceptance to navigation, pickup, and drop-off tasks. The Deliveries Tribe ensures the smooth, efficient, and reliable movement of orders from vendors to customers through the Rider App.

What is expected for you to do is:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand and address challenges in the order delivery process, spanning Order Management, Rider Fundamentals, and Delivery Flow.

• Design and develop features that optimise the rider experience

• Implement and maintain scalable and reliable systems, which might perform migration and deal with a massive amount of requests and orders

• Continuously monitor and optimise the system performance, using both technical and business metrics. We live DevOps!

• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies

• Design and implement solutions that enhance the efficiency and reliability of order delivery through the Rider App.

• Craft and maintain world-class, high-traffic services and APIs that support the core functions of the Deliveries Tribe.

• Participate in code reviews and application debugging and diagnosis to ensure the quality and stability of our systems.

• Practice modern software development methodologies such as Continuous Delivery, test automation, and Agile 

• Provide the best value for our stakeholders and customers by maintaining alignment with our product vision for the Rider App and the delivery experience.

• Golang expert with 3+ years of experience, specialising in distributed systems and large-scale applications.

• Strong computer science foundation, including data structures, algorithms, and software design.

• User-centric approach, passionate about building high-quality products.

• Experience in cloud platform hosting via AWS and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm).

• Proficient in SQL and NoSQL databases and skilled in building scalable, high-performance services.

• Commitment to engineering excellence, including high-quality code, automated testing, and best practices.

• Pragmatic and collaborative, able to work independently, make decisions, and take ownership beyond deployment

Nice to have:

• Experience working with high-load applications.

• Experience with distributed systems.

• Familiar with standard CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Drone, and Spinnaker.

• Familiar with standard monitoring/alerting/logging tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, distributed tracing

• Building, maintaining & running a high-traffic system in a microservice environment with Kubernetes.

• Familiar with communication between microservices best practices.

• Superior knowledge of relational databases (ACID, isolation & index types, storage engines), especially with PostgreSQL

• Superior Knowledge of document-oriented databases (MongoDB, Couchbase, DynamoDB, Firestore)

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