Senior Engineer, Java/Kotlin - (Logistics, Order Tracking)

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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 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

We are on the lookout for Senior Engineer, Kotlin/Java - (Logistics, Order Tracking Experience) to join our team.

Join the Order Tracking Experience team and be at the heart of delivering exceptional customer journeys. We’re the engine behind real‑time order updates, empowering customers with accurate ETAs and live rider locations. Every line of code you write directly impacts millions of users, ensuring they stay informed and engaged from order placement to delivery. You’ll drive innovation through rapid experimentation (A/B testing) and optimize our APIs to provide seamless, delightful tracking experiences across all our platforms. Be a key player in transforming the anticipation of delivery into a moment of customer satisfaction.

• Be a technical expert: demonstrate technical savviness and expertise in programming languages, frameworks, databases. Be an inspiration for peers and junior colleagues.
• Own your software: own the process of architecture design for squad services. Monitor and improve the existing service landscape. Make effective and weighted decisions while building scalable and resilient software. Implement monitoring and alerting.
• Be autonomous: effectively manage your own time.
• Be a mentor: inspire by example and help to grow junior colleagues, actively mentoring them through knowledge sharing and pair programming.
• Be an important part of the team: help the team to improve the team processes, share opinions, ideas, best practices. Grow and succeed as a whole.
• Understand the domain: understand the real needs of the users and help Product to solve their problems. Be ready to dive in and study the business domain and propose your own ideas.

Qualifications

• You have 5+ years of overall professional application development experience.
• You worked in agile and scrum, aware of estimations and sprints.
• Experience with: Kotlin or Java, Redis, SQL and NoSQL databases, Grafana, Prometheus, AWS (or similar Cloud platforms).
• Understanding of service‑oriented, microservices architectural patterns and CI/CD.
• Knowledge on distributed systems and horizontal scalability topics.
• Experience with infrastructure‑related technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker.

Nice to have

• Experience with service integration patterns and technologies such as Kafka, SQS, or other asynchronous messaging technologies.
• Experience with highly concurrent system and multi‑threading.
• Experience with operating global 24x7 systems.

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.

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

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

You’re welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the first contact so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.

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