Senior Director/VP, Software Engineering (all genders)

We are looking for a Senior Director/VP, Software Engineering - Vendor Growth ((all genders) to lead the Vendor Growth team whose mission it is to empower our restaurants and shops to be successful. This includes multiple products (mobile apps, webapps, point-of-sale integrations, and the physical devices in kitchens) which enable our vendors to process orders and grow their business.  The position will be based in our incredible Hero Hub in the heart of Berlin and will be reporting to the SVP Engineering of Vendor. 

As the Senior Director/VP of Software Engineering you will be leading 120 engineers  managing Senior Managers/Directors and partnering closely with product leadership to provide business critical services.

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:

• Lead, support and mentor Senior Engineering Managers & Directors to be more effective leaders.

• Deeply understand the business processes and participate in defining the roadmap for core Delivery Hero teams responsible for enabling checkout and order placement for multiple verticals.

• Plan and ensure scalability, fault tolerance and reliability of the systems you own and simplify them.

• Ensure the highest bar of quality and fairness in the the team’s performance management

• Drive both quarterly and long-term objectives and key results with full responsibility for executing the OKRs.

• Drive the tribe’s long term strategy (3+ years) together with your product counterpart

• Champion best engineering practices, be a pragmatic voice showing where to invest engineering effort where it can best move the needle.

• Experience working with complex distributed systems

• Experience managing Senior Engineering Managers and multiple teams.

• Responsibility for a high complexity and high traffic project or application

• Experience adapting to different engineering cultures to drive pragmatic solutions.

• An interest in promoting  continuous deployment, agile planning, cloud-based systems, experimentation and testing. 

• Passion for shaping the engineering culture of a growing 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, 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

• 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

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

• Look up and go for it. We will support you in developing yourself and your career: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support

• 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, Online Canteen, Corporate Discounts

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.