Senior Director Engineering, Quick-Commerce

As the Senior Director of Engineering for QC Growth you will be the visionary leader behind the engines that power our global Q-Commerce ambition. You arent just managing code; you are overseeing a massive distributed ecosystemfrom global content and catalog systems as well as promo tool to high-concurrency graph API services to cutting-edge AI data products.

Leading an organization of 100 engineers across multiple tribes and domains you will bridge the gap between complex distributed systems and world-class customer experiences. Your goal is to simplify the complex scale the successful and mentor the next generation of technical leaders in the heart of Berlin.

Furthermore you will closely work and collaborate with our various brands around the world to build an optimized solution for their needs while driving for alignment to reduce overall complexity. If youre a creative problem solver who is eager to deliver solutions and hungry for a new adventure an international workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Berlin!

Your mission: 

• Strategic Leadership: Own the technical roadmap for the QC Growth product line driving long-term OKRs that align engineering excellence with aggressive business growth.

• Scaling Excellence: Direct a 100-person engineering organization fostering a culture of high performance psychological safety and continuous improvement.

• Architectural Stewardship: Act as the North Star for architectural decisions ensuring our microserviceshandling massive global trafficare resilient scalable and secure.

• Data Innovation: Oversee the evolution of our central QC data pipelines transforming raw data into first-class products especially in the area of category classification affordability perception and content enrichment.

• Global Collaboration: Partner with international brands across 70 countries to build localized solutions while maintaining a unified low-complexity global platform.

• Organizational Evolution: Boldly lead organizational design hiring and talent development to ensure the team is structured for maximum velocity and impact.

Qualifications :

Your heroic skills:

• The Track Record: 8 years of engineering leadership with at least 4 years managing multiple managers/teams in a large-scale distributed microservices environment.

• Technical Depth: A deep understanding of modern stacks. You should be fluent in at least 70% of our ecosystem: Golang Python Java Postgres TypeScript Kafka GraphQL BigQuery gRPC and Kubernetes (AWS/GCP).

• Operational Mastery: You have a systems thinking mindset with expert-level knowledge of service-oriented architecture cloud-native infrastructure and high-concurrency troubleshooting.

• Business Acumen: You dont just ship features; you move metrics. You are comfortable translating business KPIs into technical requirements and vice-versa.

• People First: You are a passionate mentor. You take pride in growing Directors and Engineering Managers building a talent magnet organization.

• The Agile Mindset: You thrive in fast-paced fault-tolerant environments where done is better than perfect but excellent is the baseline.

• Language & Travel: You speak fluent English and are willing to travel once a quarter.

Bonus Points:

• A proven history of building e-commerce or marketplace models at scale.

• Hands-on experience with Machine Learning integration and large-scale data products.

Additional Information :

Why Delivery Hero 

• Exchange ideas and meet colleagues from different teams in our active guilds and through our global tech & product community.

• We offer visa & relocation support globally to our permanent employees.

Have we caught your attention If you are looking for an environment where our company DNA is defined by our values and People Leadership Principles please send us your CV.

Were looking forward to your application!

About us:

Delivery Hero Tech is playing an exceptional role in the large growth of our company. Our Tech teams leverage a diverse stack to create cutting-edge solutions which cover the full customer experience - starting with a great online search experience and ending with a real-time delivery at your doorstep. 

Read about the latest updates from our Tech & Product teams on our blog.

Delivery Hero is building the next generation global on-demand delivery platform. We have grown rapidly from inception in 2011 to become the worlds largest food-ordering network and were now innovating and creating new verticals such as groceries pharmacies flowers and other convenience articles in multiple markets.

Our awesome international team already operates in 70 countries worldwide and we are looking for the most talented people to join us on our mission to always deliver an amazing experience. If youre an enthusiastic problem solver and hungry for a new adventure an exciting job and multicultural workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Berlin!  

At Delivery Hero we believe diversity and representation is 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 race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status or any other aspect that makes you you.

Have we caught your attention If you are looking for an environment where our company DNA is defined by our values please send us your CV.

Find out more information on how to prepare for your technical interview here.

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 experiencejust let us know with an email to our Inclusion Officer at it in your application.

Severely disabled applicants with equal qualifications will be given preferential consideration.

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time