Engineering Manager - Operations Tech (m/f/d)

Full-time

Company Description

Flink is the leading quick commerce player in Europe. We are on a mission to give people back time: You can order your groceries through our app and we deliver to your doorstep in minutes. We carry 3,000 products with a focus on the leading brands in each category. We aim for sustainability by making deliveries on electric bikes and utilizing recyclable packaging.

Flink launched in February 2021 and already operates in more than 90 cities in Germany, and the Netherlands. The business generated more than EUR 400m in revenues in 2022 and is operationally profitable. Flink is backed by the world’s most renowned tech investors, including Prosus, Mubadala, and Bond, and strategic investors like Doordash and REWE. We take great pride in being an inclusive employer that offers equal opportunities, and we celebrate the diversity and multiculturalism of our team. We're growing fast and always pushing ourselves to do better - we play for #1.

In your role as Engineering Manager - Opertions Tech (m/f/d), you will shape one of our engineering teams by growing and managing it, conducting in-depth analysis, and directly impacting the business by contributing to product ideation and implementation.

Job Description

Our engineering organisation is critical in ensuring Flink delivers a best-in-class service. The Operations Tech Domain focuses on building solutions to bring our operations to unforeseen optimization levels and, at the same time, keep our service levels to provide a great experience to our consumers. This covers the full life cycle of our business, from the integration with our partners/suppliers to the delivery of the goods to the customer. Always ensuring that our solutions are intuitive and user-friendly, and that each person involved in this process has a journey that is seamless, delightful, and efficient.

We believe in empowering autonomous teams with challenging missions, allowing them to develop solutions that have a strong and measurable impact on both our customers and business. As an Engineering Manager, you will:

Lead a cross-functional engineering team responsible for developing and enhancing features across for our rider lifecycle, including web, mobile and backend;
Apply pragmatic solutions, find the right tradeoffs, and seek to reduce complexity to help teams deliver solutions that meet the needs of the business;
Work closely with your Product Manager to ensure actionable and valuable work is defined for the team;
Drive external and internal hiring across multiple disciplines, develop our engineering talent into the leaders of the future, establish a feedback culture within the team, manage the performance of team members, and make sure that we retain our top engineering talent;
Translate the product and business vision into a technological strategy and architecture for your team, and then work together to execute this vision;
Own the end-to-end delivery of software (you build it, you own it), including team ownership of monitoring and incident management of production issues;
Keep product and engineering quality high and continuously identify and resolve technical debt, quality issues, and gaps in engineering practices;
Advocate and advance modern software development practices and help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices;
Create a healthy culture of collaboration and inclusion, lead by example in line with the engineering and company values;
Focus on applying best-in-class industry practices to continue to raise the bar on providing developer delight and speed of delivery for the teams.

Qualifications

You will bring 3+ years of experience building multi-platform applications (web, mobile - iOS and Android, and backend);
In Addition, you will have 2+ years of experience as an engineering leader, mentoring and growing successful teams;
A bias towards action, with the ability to make the tradeoffs between delivering outcomes and making things perfect;
Significant experience in applying different architecture patterns like microservices, event-driven systems, micro frontends, etc;
A strong interest in the business problems we are solving, and empathy with our users;
Adept at developing in one or more common programming languages such as Go, Kotlin, Swift, and/or JavaScript;
Being a good listener, but can also effectively communicate their perspective;
Highly self-driven, professional personality with an aspiration to excel in your role;
Capable of taking both the big picture and also getting into details when it is appropriate to do so;
Business fluency in English.

Additional Information

A €1000 annual L&D budget as well as individual coaching options to ensure you have plenty of opportunities to learn, grow and achieve your goals
26 days of vacation, +1 day every year up to a maximum of 30 days
A mobility budget of 35 EUR per month for Deutschland Ticket subsidy
A cool discount on your Urban Sports Club membership
Attractive company pension options
Unlimited access to an e-learning and development platform, MyAcademy, including online German courses
Online discounts with Corporate Benefits and Future Bens
A cool discount off your personal Flink orders; be the first to test out new products!
A modern and dog-friendly office in the heart of Berlin - lots of delicious lunch spots available within short walking distance

It is our commitment that every applicant will be evaluated according to their skills regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, or religion.

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