
Engineer II, Kotlin/Java - (Logistics Optimisation, Routing Core)
Delivery Hero Mobility & Delivery
Full TimeBerlin, Germany
About the role
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.
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
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
— Published by Delivery Hero. Apply on the employer's own posting.
Skills
microservices
kubernetes
operations
terraform
logistics
kotlin
docker
retail
java
aws
jvm
problem solving
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