Delivery Hero
Posted 16h ago

Engineer II, Kotlin/Java - (Logistics Optimisation, Routing Core)

Delivery Hero
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
HybridFull Time
Responsibilities
  • owning services
  • building systems
  • writing code
Requirements
  • Requires 3+ years of application development experience
  • Kotlin/JVM proficiency
  • Microservices knowledge
  • NoSQL experience, and strong problem-solving and collaboration skills
Technical tools mentioned
KotlinJavaJVMNoSQLKubernetesTerraformDockerAWSGoogle Cloud

Job description

Company Description:

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 65 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 push hard, learn quickly and stay human along the way. It’s this wonderful mix of high performance and real community that makes Delivery Hero a place where ambition and belonging grow side by side. If you’re curious, collaborative and ready to dive deep into meaningful work, you’ll fit right in.

Job Description:

We are on the lookout for an Engineer II, Kotlin/Java to join our Dispatching team. You will help us create a fast, reliable and transparent delivery experience. You will be developing a dispatch service that connects riders and vendors to millions of customers every day. It is a most critical part of our ecosystem, a high-throughput system at the core of our logistics platform. 

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.

Your mission:

  • Own the services that power courier routing, from design through deployment and beyond
  • Build scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems
  • Write clean, maintainable code as part of a collaborative team
Qualifications:
  • You have 3+ years of overall professional application development experience
  • Proficiency in Kotlin, the JVM, or similar technologies
  • Understanding of service-oriented and microservices architectural patterns
  • Experience with NoSQL databases
  • You have a strong problem solving and collaborative mindset

Nice to have:

  • Knowledge on distributed systems and horizontal scalability topics
  • Experience with highly concurrent system and multi-threading
  • Experience with infrastructure-related technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, continuous integration, and AWS or Google Cloud providers 
  • Experience with solving logistics problems on scale
  • Experience or willingness to learn frontend development for internal tools
Additional Information:

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. 
  • 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 and Food Vouchers. 
  • Wondering what relocating to Berlin is like? In this article, we’ve put together 10 things you should know about moving to Berlin  and how Delivery Hero can support you. You can also visit our relocation hub and check out more information about moving to Berlin.
  • Ready to prepare for your interview? Check out the list of the 5 most common interview questions and answers created in collaboration with our recruiters.

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 let us know with an email to our Inclusion Officer at [email protected].

Severely disabled applicants with equal qualifications will be given preferential consideration.


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

About Delivery Hero

Global platform for online food ordering and local delivery.

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