Senior Engineering Manager (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 90 cities in Germany, and the Netherlands. The business generated more than EUR 500m in revenues in 2023 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.

As Senior Engineering Manager (m/f/d), you’ll lead and grow teams focused on seamless supplier data integration, empowering our hub teams with the right tools. You’ll drive technical excellence, ensure strong cross-team collaboration and maintain effective stakeholder communication to deliver efficient, user-centered solutions that make a real impact.

Job Description

• Manage the teams that ensure seamless integration with our supplier data, ensure the best layout in our hubs and provide the best tooling for the people in our hubs.
• Drive a direct impact on the Flink business by leveraging supplier data to optimize our processes, enabling our hubs to operate at their highest potential.
• 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, 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

• Strong 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 actual customer and business problems to solve
• A desire to build a diverse team that wins together and prioritizes success
• Significant experience in applying different architectures 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 also argue for the cause when needed
• 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 a helicopter view of things to get the big picture while getting into details when needed, but understands when it is appropriate in doing so
• 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.