Delivery Hero
Logistics
SeniorEngineer,Golang(Logistics,RiderExperience)
“Senior Engineer, Golang - (Logistics, Rider Experience) at Delivery Hero. Skills: Golang, distributed systems, large-scale applications, AWS, infrastructure as code, microservices. Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Data, and Engineering partners to identify and solve challenges in the delivery journey, with a focus on personalisation and rider impact.. Design and build features that leverage personalised insights to improve rider engagement, findability, and delivery performance.”
What You'll Achieve.
deliver amazing experiences, fast, easy, and to your door; make last-mile delivery efficient, affordable, and sustainable; improve experiences for riders, end customers, and merchants across the globe; optimize delivery operations; supporting expansion into new areas like grocery and retail; deliver the right information to riders at the right time, through personalised insights, guidance, and training that enhance rider findability, engagement, and performance; ensuring a seamless and consistent Rider App experience; empower multiple squads to contribute efficiently and at scale; ensures the smooth, reliable movement of orders from vendors to customers; improve rider engagement, findability, and delivery performance; Develop and maintain scalable, reliable systems that handle high traffic, large request volumes, and complex migrations; Monitor, measure, and optimize system performance using both technical and business metrics; Deliver meaningful value to riders, partners, and the business by staying aligned with our mission
Industry & Context.
systems thinking and problem-solving skills; able to challenge assumptions; evaluate trade-offs; break down complex problems while keeping user impact and long-term sustainability in mind
on-call experience, incident response, hybrid working model, join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Golang expert with 3+ years of experience building distributed systems and large-scale applications, owning and operating Tier 1 / business-critical services with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance, Hands-on on-call experience, commitment to engineering excellence, incident response, root cause analysis, continuous improvement of observability and alerting, delivering high-quality code with automated testing and best practices for maintainability and reliability, Proficient in NoSQL databases such as DynamoDB or redis, experience in cloud platform hosting via AWS, infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm), Senior engineering mindset combining user-centric product thinking, full ownership from design to production, pragmatic collaboration, systems thinking and problem-solving skills, able to challenge assumptions, evaluate trade-offs, break down complex problems while keeping user impact and long-term sustainability in mind
Nice to Have
Experience building and operating high-load, high-traffic systems in distributed, microservice-based environments, understanding of distributed systems, including service-to-service communication and reliability best practices, Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for running and scaling microservices in production, Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Drone, or Spinnaker, Proficiency with observability stacks, including monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing (e. g. , Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog)
What You'll Do.
Collaborate closely with Product
and Engineering partners to identify and solve challenges in the delivery journey
with a focus on personalisation and rider impact.
Design and build features that leverage personalised insights to improve rider engagement
and delivery performance.
Develop and maintain scalable
reliable systems that handle high traffic
large request volumes
and complex migrations.
Contribute to a consistent Rider App experience by working with shared host spaces
and a clear information architecture.
and optimize system performance using both technical and business metrics
Craft and operate high-quality
high-traffic services and APIs that power the core delivery experience and personalised rider tools.
Participate in code reviews
and incident diagnosis to ensure stability
Apply modern engineering practices such as Continuous Delivery
and Agile development.
Stay current with industry trends and continuously seek opportunities to improve how we build and operate our systems.
Deliver meaningful value to riders
and the business by staying aligned with our mission
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Data, and Engineering partners; pragmatic collaboration
Process & Methodology
Agile development
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