Director, Software Engineering Ad-Tech (all genders)

We are looking for a a Director of Engineering (all genders) to join our Ad-Tech tribe on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences.

Ad-Tech tribe is currently contributing to the development of our cutting-edge platform that supports our partners, including restaurants and local shops, in scaling their businesses.

This role is pivotal in managing hundreds of millions of euros in advertising revenue, with a focus on empowering our partners to attract new customers.

If you're a creative problem solver who is hungry for a new adventure, an international workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Berlin!

Your mission:

• Collaborate with business and product stakeholders to define the global roadmap for the team in the short and long term.

• Develop the Ad-Tech engineering strategy and implement it across our global organization.

• Lead, support, and mentor engineering managers to enhance their leadership skills.

• Contribute to the development of a next-generation advertising platform with real-time bidding, personalization, and high concurrency, serving over 70 countries and brands with round-the-clock customer orders.

• Plan for scalability, fault tolerance, and reliability of the systems under your purview and streamline processes.

• Uphold the highest standards of quality and fairness in team performance management.

• Integrate best practices in data compliance, PII data protection, and security into our infrastructure, tools, products, processes, and organizational culture.

• Expand our recruitment efforts and establish criteria for identifying talented candidates.

• Drive both quarterly and long-term objectives and key results (OKRs) with full accountability for their execution.

• Advocate for best engineering practices, guiding where engineering efforts should be focused for maximum impact.

Your heroic skills:

• 5 + years of leadership experience in managing engineering teams (focused on Ad-Tech platforms would be a plus).

• Overall around 12 years of experience with a strong emphasis on modern web applications and cloud services, particularly in large-scale distributed microservice systems.

• Proficiency in at least 50% of the following technologies: Python, Golang, Java, Javascript, Typescript, Postgres, SQL/NoSQL, BigQuery, Kubernetes, Kafka, REST, gRPC, GraphQL, AWS, GCP, Datadog.

• Experience in overseeing managers and multiple teams concurrently.

• Effective collaboration with product management and other departments to develop new products and features that align with business requirements using modern engineering principles.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a clear business focus.

• Background in engineering, technical knowledge, and the ability to assess complex technical decisions.

• Experience managing high-complexity or high-traffic projects or applications and building large distributed systems.

• Proficiency in coaching, mentoring, and setting up individuals for success.

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, 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

At Delivery Hero, 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. Just be yourself and we can’t wait to see what value you bring to the role. We're as interested in your character as we are in your talent.