Engineer II, Kotlin/Java - (Logistics, Routing Optimisation)

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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

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 across the globe. Each enhancement you contribute will help Delivery Hero optimize delivery operations, supporting expansion into new areas like grocery and retail.

In this role, you will:

Participate in one of the most exciting components of the food delivery business: dispatching algorithm, simulation, and route estimations are some of the topics you’ll work on a daily basis!
Small improvement matters at scale! Implement and improve cutting‑edge algorithms for optimizing our dispatching process.
Own and evolve a set of services responsible for building and providing courier routes.
Be a key part of the entire development lifecycle from specification to deployment and running the apps in production.
Work together with a great team to succeed in our mission.
Ensure scalable and quality code is built.

Qualifications

You have 3+ years of overall professional application development experience.
Proficiency in Kotlin, the JVM, or similar technologies.
Understanding of service‑oriented and microservices architectural patterns.
You own your software end‑to‑end, including cloud deployment and monitoring.
You have a strong problem‑solving and collaborative mindset.

Nice to have

Knowledge of distributed systems and horizontal scalability topics.
Experience with highly concurrent systems and multi‑threading.
Experience with infrastructure‑related technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, continuous integration, and AWS or Google Cloud providers.

Additional Information

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.
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.
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.
Look up and go for it. We will support you in developing yourself and your career: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support.
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, Online Canteen, Corporate Discounts.

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

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.