Software Engineering Manager (Kotlin/Java) (Quick Commerce)

TL;DR

Software Engineering Manager (Quick Commerce): Leading an engineering team focused on building and scaling technology for order fulfillment in the quick commerce sector with an accent on code quality, testing, and engineering best practices. Focus on ensuring the reliability of a low-latency, high-throughput system powering order fulfillment across 60+ countries.

Location: Hybrid in Berlin, Germany, with required office presence 2 days a week.

Company

hirify.global is a pioneering local delivery platform operating in around 65 countries worldwide, headquartered in Berlin, Germany.

What you will do

• Ensure high code quality, testing, and engineering best practices, and overall product performance.
• Support an established team of engineers in their day-to-day development experience, personal development, and long-term career growth.
• Ensure the high reliability of a low-latency high-throughput system that powers the fulfilment of quick commerce orders of 60+ countries and all hirify.global brands.
• Partner with your product counterpart and provide technical direction to your team, facilitating the design of feasible and iterative solutions aligned with the business needs.
• Own the tech metrics and KPIs of your team, ensuring full visibility, tracking, and alerting.
• Provide technical support for the design of solutions that are reliable, performing, cost-effective, and scalable to meet the business needs.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience in managing a team.
• You are a Java / Kotlin expert with a deep understanding of the JVM ecosystem and paradigms, and can abstract this knowledge to multiple scenarios.
• Solid understanding of event-driven architecture patterns and experience with message brokers (Kafka, SNS/SQS).
• Experience with AWS services (S3, RDS, SNS/SQS, Lambda) and infrastructure as code (Terraform) with strong grasp of distributed systems concepts: data consistency, eventual consistency, idempotency, and fault tolerance.
• You are proficient in writing technical documents (RFCs) in order to clarify feature requirements.
• You are a mentor that can show success cases growing people in their reporting line.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working model with face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week.
• 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service.
• 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.
• Health Checkups, Meditation, Gym & Bicycle Subsidy.
• Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank, Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan.
• Digital Meal Vouchers, Food Vouchers, Corporate Discounts. Courses.