Become part of the Flink Family!

We are Flink - your online supermarket revolutionizing 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 customize 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. 

We are looking for an Engineering Manager (m/f/d) for our Dispatching team. You will be in charge of building the dispatching solution that will power the efficient delivery of all Flink orders! 

Our Dispatching System is the heart and brain of our order fulfillment process. The system automatically manages the packing and delivery of tens of thousands of orders in 3 countries daily. Our backend engineers are continuously improving dispatching algorithms to optimise delivery time and efficiency.

We believe in giving autonomous teams a challenging mission and letting them build solutions that actually have a strong and measurable impact on the customer and our business.

• Drive the delivery of business outcomes 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.
• Drive external and internal hiring, develop our engineering talent into new challenges and roles, establish a feedback culture within the team, manage the performance of team members and ensure we retain our top engineering talent
• Translate product and business vision into a technology 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 and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices
• Create a healthy culture of collaboration and inclusion, lead by example in line 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

• 2+ years experience as an engineering leader mentoring and growing successful teams
• You have previous Backend/Data Engineer experience with Go, Java, TypeScript or other OO or functional languages and a familiarity with optimization algorithms or techniques, and in particular with the challenges of applying them in real-world settings
• 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 architectures patterns like microservices, event-driven systems, micro frontends, etc.
• 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 understands when it is appropriate in doing so
• Fluency in English

• A €1000 annual L&D budget as well as individual coaching options to ensure you have plenty of opportunities to learn, grow and achieve your goals
• 26 days of vacation, +1 day every year up to a maximum of 30 days
• A mobility budget of 30 EUR per month with RYDES, which you can use individually for Uber, BVG and many other providers 
• A cool discount on your Urban Sports Club membership
• Attractive company pension options
• Unlimited access to an e-learning and development platform, MyAcademy, including online German courses
• Online discounts with Corporate Benefits and Future Bens
• A cool discount off your personal Flink orders; be the first to test out new products!
• A modern and dog-friendly office in the heart of Berlin - lots of delicious lunch spots available within short walking distance

We pride ourselves in being an inclusive and equal opportunities employer with a diverse and multicultural team. 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.