(Senior) Principal Software Engineer - Logistics (all genders)

Company Description

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 over 70+ countries worldwide, powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, we enable creative minds to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero

Job Description

We are looking for a (Senior) Principal Software Engineer (all genders) to join the Logistics leadership team to help make last mile delivery look easy. Logistics is a global service and last-mile delivery product that’s at the heart of Delivery Hero’s business, and its careful integration into many distinct customer brands and applications is what lets the company simultaneously harness both local autonomy and centralized scale. Reporting directly to the Vice President of the Logistics Customer Product Line, you’ll be working with engineering and product leaders across the company to set technical strategy and deliver innovative, customer-centric products that scale.

Your mission:

• Help set company-wide tech and product strategy by drawing on your deep technical insight, clear analysis, and excellent storytelling

• Make hands-on contributions to demonstrate what’s possible with last-mile delivery and set the direction of the company’s most important product bets

• Serve as a role model of engineering excellence and elevate the function across the company through your example and mentorship

• Lead expert groups both within Logistics and across the company to better harness the talent of our most experienced engineers

• Be a visible representative of Delivery Hero in the wider tech community and help draw from and contribute to world-class engineering practices

Qualifications

Your heroic skills: 

• A minimum of ten years of experience in software engineering and a long track record of shipping large-scale consumer products

• Passionate about crafting simple solutions to complex engineering problems and writing readable, maintainable, well tested code

• Substantial expertise architecting and operating distributed backend systems that are easy to evolve and operate and which are both highly reliable and cost efficient

• Excellent storytelling and facility at tailoring technical communication to audiences of varying degrees of experience

• Ease at navigating and influencing large organization with varied and cross-functional stakeholders

• An ability to lead through others and develop other senior individual contributors into greater levels of impact
  

Nice to have:

• Substantial mobile architecture and development experience on iOS and Android

• Background in machine learning engineering, data engineering, and data science

• Deep familiarity with the logistics domain and products that make heavy use of geospatial data and maps

Additional Information

At Delivery Hero, we believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring -- therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. Just be yourself and we can’t wait to see what value you bring to the role. We're as interested in your character as we are in your talent.