(Senior) Staff Engineer (m/f/d)

  • Full-time

Company Description

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 in minutes. We put our customers first and ensure all products delivered are fresh and nutritious. Additionally, we can 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!

In your role as (Senior) Staff Engineer (m/f/d) you will play a key role in the engineering of our cutting-edge quick grocery commerce platform working and leading a cross-functional team structure across one of Flink’s domains.

Job Description

  • Lead and mentor the team with tech roadmaps, architecture decisions, and service development and release-cycle across Flink’s back office, warehouse, and rider tech

  • Drive and play a significant part in the discussions and sprint planning of new features

  • Closely collaborate across other domain teams to deliver value to the end-user in a global context

  • Drive the backend chapter towards adapting and experimenting with new technologies

  • Contribute to scaling up the backend team and bringing great talents onboard by conducting interviews and code pairing sessions

  • Owning and developing the roadmap of your domain E2E working closely with the counterpart on the Fullstack and Frontend chapters

  • Our Tech stack that you will be exposed to in this back-end role is Golang, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes and PostgreSQL.

Qualifications

  • Senior, Staff and/or Lead Experience building scalable and reliable applications

  • Open-minded personality, comfortable working in an Agile environment and making high-level decisions as well as effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams

  • Strong fundamentals in backend engineering with Golang, working on complex distributed systems

  • Comfortable with event-based communication between microservices

  • Experience using cloud provider platforms like GCP or AWS, and deploying distributed services to Kubernetes. (Terraform knowledge is nice to have).

  • Experience in driving code quality through unit testing, pair programming and/or mentoring engineers

  • Proficient in applying best practice Design patterns and Design principles when building your software. 

  • Researching and staying up to date with the latest trends and technologies

  • Business professional English

Additional Information

  • A cool discount off your personal Flink orders, be the first to test out new products!
  • A €1000 annual L&D budget as well as career coaching options to ensure you have plenty of opportunities to learn, grow and achieve your goals
  • 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
  • 26 days of vacation, +1 day every year up to a maximum of 30 days
  • A unique opportunity to be an early bird and have an impact on our strategy & growth
  • A steep learning curve, the possibility of working 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.

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