Engineering Manager - Search & Recommendations & AdTech (m/f/d)

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 2,500 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 80 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.

Job Description

Our engineering organisation makes sure that Flink delivers the best in class service to our customers. In the Search & Recommendations & Ad Tech pod, you build the core user experience that lets our customers find the right products in the most efficient and convenient way and ensure a highly contextual and seamless shopping experience.

We believe in giving autonomous teams a challenging mission and let them build solutions that actually have a strong and measurable impact on the customer and our business.

• Build and grow the cross-functional engineering team that is responsible for the search, recommendations, and ad tech engine at Flink;
• Make a direct impact on the Flink business by blending organic search results, recommendations, and sponsored content to enhance user discovery of our products on Flink, helping users find what they seek and delighting them with new, previously unseen products.
• 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 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, agile 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

• 3+ years experience building personalized search and recommendation engines, ideally in the eCommerce context;
• 3+ years 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;
• A strong interest in the business problems we are solving, and empty with our customers;
• A desire to build a diverse team that wins together and prioritizes success;
• Significant experience in applying different architecture patterns like microservices, event-driven systems, micro frontends, etc;
• Adept at developing in one or more common programming languages such as Go, Java, and/or JavaScript;
• Being a good listener, but can also effectively communicate their perspective;
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment and able to deal with change;
• Highly self-driven, professional personality with an aspiration to excel in your role;
• Capable of taking both a helicopter view of things to get 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 30 EUR per month with NAVIT, which you can use individually for Uber, BVG, and many other providers;
• 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.