About the company
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 around 65 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 push hard, learn quickly and stay human along the way. It’s this wonderful mix of high performance and real community that makes Delivery Hero a place where ambition and belonging grow side by side. If you’re curious, collaborative and ready to dive deep into meaningful work, you’ll fit right in.
Responsibilities
- Develop backend services using Golang/Python and frontend applications using React
- Design and evolve APIs, event-driven workflows, and Kafka-based integrations — including with internal platforms and external Warehouse Management Systems and logistics platforms
- Partner with Product Managers, engineers, and operational stakeholders to translate business problems into scalable technical solutions
- Make technical decisions within your features and contribute to broader architecture and design discussions within the team
- Own the complete software lifecycle: design, implementation, automated testing, deployment, observability, and production operation
- Investigate production issues and improve system reliability, performance, resilience, and observability
Requirements
- Professional experience building and operating production software, with the ability to independently own features from problem understanding through production delivery
- Strong experience with at least one backend programming language — Golang or Python is particularly relevant, with the willingness to work across our backend stack
- Experience building modern web applications using React or comparable technologies, integrating them with backend APIs
- Solid understanding of software design principles, REST APIs, relational databases, and automated testing, with the ability to reason about technical trade-offs
- Experience or good understanding of distributed/event-driven systems and production infrastructure such as Kafka, AWS, Docker/k8s, CI/CD, and observability
- A collaborative and proactive engineering mindset, co