Director, Engineering - (Logistics)

We are on the lookout for a Director of Engineering - (Logistics) to join the Logistics team on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences. 

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.

• Support and mentor (Senior) Engineering Managers in developing their leadership capabilities and driving team success.

• Plan and ensure scalability of the systems you own.

• Incorporate best practices when it comes to data compliance, PII data protection, and security into our infrastructure, tools, products, processes and our org culture.

• Drive both quarterly and long-term goals and key results with full responsibility for executing the OKRs and participate in defining the roadmap for core Delivery Hero teams responsible for transmitting and delivering orders across the globe.

• Advocate for engineering excellence and provide pragmatic direction on where technical investment will drive the greatest value

• Experience with managing managers and multiple teams simultaneously. Coaching, mentoring and setting people up for success.

• A strong engineering background, knowledge and being able to evaluate complex technical decisions.

• Responsibility for a high complexity or high traffic project or application, experience with building large distributed systems.

• A mindset compatible with continuous deployment, agile planning, cloud-based systems, experimentation and testing.

• Past experience with cloud deployments (Kubernetes, AWS or GCP).

• Experience with setting up processes in an engineering team.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• We offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service.

• We will support you in developing yourself and your career growth opportunities: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.

• Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Meditation, 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.

• 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, Corporate Discounts. Courses.

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 include it in your application. You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.