We are Flink - your online supermarket revolutionising the way you do your grocery shopping. With a wide selection of over 2,400 high-quality products, we aim to deliver to your door within minutes. We put our customers first and ensure all products delivered are fresh and nutritious. Additionally, we are able to customise our national assortment to be able to offer you unique local products in every city. Our delivery hubs are located in densely populated inner-city locations and we strive to be sustainable by delivering on electric bikes and using packaging that can be recycled. 

Founded by experienced e-commerce professionals and seasoned entrepreneurs with exceptional track records, backed by some of the most renowned Global investors, we are growing rapidly and have a great hunger to continuously challenge ourselves. We pride ourselves in being an inclusive and equal opportunities employer with a diverse and multicultural team.

If you want to be part of this exciting journey… read on! 

Our engineering organisation makes sure that Flink delivers the best in class service to our customers. Platform Engineering is responsible for engineering productivity and enables the product teams to be highly efficient in building, deploying and running solutions reliable at scale and with the complexity that come with delivering groceries in under 10 minutes.

The Platform team is building products that provide the tooling and expertise to enhance the productivity of our engineers by removing their need to be concerned about infrastructure, deployments, observability, CI/CD and more:

• Build and grow the platform team composed of software engineers and site reliability engineers to build products that enable the other product teams

• Drive the delivery of enabler and capabilities for your team, including planning and execution

• Apply pragmatic solutions, find the right tradeoffs and seek to reduce complexity to help teams deliver solutions that meet the business needs.  

• Work super close with the other teams Product and Engineering Leadership to ensure actionable and valuable work is defined for the team

• Drive external and internal hiring across engineering, develop our engineering talent into new challenges and roles, establish a feedback culture within the team, manage performance of team members and ensure we retain our top engineering talent.

• Translate product and business vision into a platform vision and strategy for your team including the and architectural direction and execute against that vision with your team. 

• Own the end-to-end delivery of software (you build it, you run it), including team ownership of monitoring and incident management of production issues 

• Keep product and engineering quality  high and continuously identify and resolve technical debt, quality issues and gaps in engineering practises. 

• Advocate and advance modern, agile software development practices that are the right fit for a platform team and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices. 

• Create a healthy culture of collaboration and inclusion, lead by example inline with the engineering and company values

• Focus on applying best-in-class industry practices to continue to raise the bar on providing developer delight and speed of delivery for the teams;

• 3+ years experience as an engineering leader in a horizontal platform team mentoring and growing successful teams;

• A bias towards action, with the ability to make the tradeoffs between delivering outcomes  and making things perfect

• A strong interest in the actual customer and business problems to solve

• A desire to build a diverse team that wins together and prioritizes success

• Significant experience in applying different architecture patterns like microservices, event-driven systems, micro frontends, etc.

• Adept at developing in one or more common programming languages such as Go, Java and/or Python

• Being a good listener, but also argue for the cause when needed

• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment and able to deal with change.

• Highly self-driven, professional personality with an aspiration to excel in your role

• Capable of taking a helicopter view of things to get the big picture while getting into details when needed, but understanding when it is appropriate doing so.

• Fluency in English

• A cool discount off your personal Flink orders, be the first to test out new products! 

• Unlimited access to an e-learning and development platform, MyAcademy, including online German courses  

• Attractive company pension options 

• Online discounts with Corporate Benefits and Future Bens

• A unique opportunity to be an early bird and have an impact on our strategy & growth 

• A steep learning curve, the possibility to work in an energised and dynamic team within a fast-paced environment

• For Berlin: A newly renovated and spacious, dog-friendly HQ in the heart of Mitte - lots of delicious lunch spots available within short walking distance

It is our commitment that every applicant will be evaluated according to their skills regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, or religion.