(Senior) Principal Software Engineer - Logistics

We are looking for a (Senior) Principal Software Engineer to join the Customer Logistics leadership team to help make last mile delivery look easy. Logistics is a global service and last-mile delivery product that’s at the heart of Delivery Hero’s business, and its careful integration into many distinct customer brands and applications is what lets the company simultaneously harness both local autonomy and centralized scale. Reporting directly to the Vice President of the Logistics Customer Product Line, you’ll be working with engineering and product leaders across the company to set technical strategy and deliver innovative, customer-centric products that scale.

• Help set company-wide tech and product strategy by drawing on your deep technical insight, clear analysis, and excellent storytelling

• Make hands-on contributions to demonstrate what’s possible with last-mile delivery and set the direction of the company’s most important product bets

• Serve as a role model of engineering excellence and elevate the function across the company through your example and mentorship

• Lead expert groups both within Logistics and across the company to better harness the talent of our most experienced engineers

• Be a visible representative of Delivery Hero in the wider tech community and help draw from and contribute to world-class engineering practices

• A minimum of ten years of experience in software engineering and a long track record of shipping large-scale consumer products

• Passionate about crafting simple solutions to complex engineering problems and writing readable, maintainable, well tested code

• Substantial expertise architecting and operating distributed backend systems that are easy to evolve and operate and which are both highly reliable and cost efficient

• Excellent storytelling and facility at tailoring technical communication to audiences of varying degrees of experience

• Ease at navigating and influencing  large organization with varied and cross-functional stakeholders

• An ability to lead through others and develop other senior individual contributors into greater levels of impact
   

Nice to have:

• Substantial mobile architecture and development experience on iOS and Android

• Background in machine learning engineering, data engineering, and data science

• Deep familiarity with the logistics domain and products that make heavy use of  geospatial data and maps

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 around 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, 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

• 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.