About the opportunity
We are looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Fintech domain and play a critical role in shaping a reliable, scalable, and evolving platform that supports both customer payments and internal finance operations.
This is a high impact leadership role in a business critical domain. The scope covers the full lifecycle of efood’s payment and financial transaction flows, from the moment a customer pays for an order through downstream processing and controls, including refunds, cancellations, fraud checks, vendor payouts, reporting, and regulatory responsibilities. The role requires strong engineering judgment, people leadership, and the ability to drive progress across a complex stakeholder environment.
You will work closely with Product Managers, Finance stakeholders, Engineering leaders, C-level stakeholders, and Delivery Hero teams to improve domain operations, raise the technical bar, and support the evolution of the domain as the business grows.
Our tech environment
We operate a microservice architecture with more than 80 services that handle high request volumes using both synchronous and event-driven communication patterns.
Our stack includes Golang, REST APIs, gRPC, Kubernetes, AWS and GCP, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and messaging platforms such as Kafka and cloud messaging services.
We are part of the Delivery Hero group and collaborate closely with their Global Services teams.
What you will do:
Lead the Fintech engineering domain through a mixed team structure that includes an Engineering Manager and senior engineers, and shape the team structure over time based on domain priorities, scale and organizational needs.
Partner closely with Product Managers to support delivery of new payment capabilities and domain improvements, while contributing technical perspective, tradeoffs, and prioritization input.
Work closely with Finance stakeholders to improve end-to-end finance flows, reduce discrepancies, increase automation, and drive clarity across cross-team issues and dependencies.
Provide technical leadership across the domain by guiding architecture and design decisions, coaching engineers and managers, and raising the bar on engineering quality, ownership, and system thinking.
Drive execution across multiple services and teams, including dependencies on Delivery Hero-provided services, by keeping priorities clear, surfacing risks early, and maintaining visibility on progress, constraints, and outcomes.
Support the team in balancing feature delivery, reliability, and technical improvements, with selective hands-on involvement when needed to unblock progress or support critical decisions.
Coach, mentor, and support the growth of engineers and managers through regular feedback, clear expectations, career development conversations, and a high standard for accountability and collaboration.
Contribute to domain planning and roadmap definition in partnership with Product and leadership, including architecture improvements, operational efficiency, reliability, and maintainability.
Ensure domain services and systems are reliable, secure, scalable, and well operated, with strong engineering practices, clear ownership, and disciplined operational readiness and observability.
Promote effective collaboration across engineering, product, finance, and external partners, and help the team navigate ambiguity and organizational complexity.
Life @efood:
At efood, no day is the same as the one before!
efooders know that working and having a good time aren't the opposite and that’s why every day at efood is a new adventure!
We always aim higher and we thrive in finding solutions to push our limits further! We care about our customers, our employees, our society.
We seize every opportunity to celebrate achievements and milestones, but we also celebrate small things (like Fridays!)
Every efooder is part of a fast-growing multinational company, with endless opportunities for professional growth and acquisition of new skills! We have an established, yet super creative and fun working environment, with talented and ambitious people whose ultimate goal is to maintain efood as the ideal workplace!
Hungry enough to join us?
What you need to be successful
10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 4 years in engineering management roles.
Strong experience in engineering leadership roles, with proven people management experience and the ability to lead senior engineers. Experience managing managers is a strong plus.
Strong technical background in backend and distributed systems, with the ability to guide architecture and engineering decisions in a microservices environment.
Ability to lead through complexity and ambiguity, especially in domains with many stakeholders, cross-team dependencies, and business-critical workflows.
Proven experience coaching engineers and engineering leaders, and improving team execution, ownership, and engineering practices.
Experience partnering effectively with Product Managers and non-engineering stakeholders to drive outcomes and resolve ambiguity.
Strong communication and collaboration skills in English, with the ability to work across technical and non-technical audiences.
Solid understanding of API based systems, event-driven communication patterns, and operational reliability concerns.
Ability to get up to speed quickly in complex domains and drive progress through structured thinking and clear prioritization.
Nice to have, but not mandatory for the role:
Experience in payments, fintech, finance systems, accounting, adjacent workflows, or other high-integrity transaction domains.
Experience working in organizations with shared platforms or external group dependencies.
Experience with Go in production systems.
Experience with cloud platforms, containerized environments, SQL and NoSQL data stores, and messaging systems.
Who we are
efood is part of the Delivery Hero Group, 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. 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.
What's in it for you
If you are happy, we are happy! That’s why we offer an attractive remuneration package for what you bring in!
We share a passion for food, so you will certainly appreciate the ticket restaurant card 💳 to spend in restaurants and/or food supplies. We are efooders after all!
We take care of you with Private Medical & Life Insurance from day #1 to keep you healthy and happy!
We prioritize your mental health 🧠 and offer round-the-clock access to an online mental health platform. You can schedule unlimited therapy sessions with certified psychologists and coaching sessions with experienced coaches.
We want you to grow with us 🚀 ! And to help you keep improving, we provide you access to our online training platform where you can study 📖 topics for your personal and professional growth!
Are you a cappuccino lover ☕? Do you desperately want a cookie? Our cafeteria got you covered!
If you want to stay in shape 🏋️ , our in-house gym awaits you fully equipped!
We are passionate about exploring, growing & learning and our Global Mobility plan is created to help our people find their purpose around the world🌎!
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