Software Engineer (Golang)

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, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. 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.

We are on the lookout for a Software Engineer (Golang) to join the Order Excellence Team on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences.

We’re building the future of connected kitchens — a global network where every device is online, every signal matters, and every issue is resolved before it reaches the customer. Our system turns real-time data into action, from triggering automated fixes to ensuring fair outcomes when delays happen. With machine learning and continuous experimentation at the core, we’re not just monitoring kitchens — we’re creating an intelligent, self-improving ecosystem that redefines reliability and trust in food delivery.

As part of our Vendor Team, you’ll be the driving force behind the success of thousands of restaurants, shops, and local businesses. Your contributions will empower vendors with advanced tools to manage their operations, boosting their visibility and reach. Every feature you help build will create growth opportunities for businesses of all sizes, strengthening Delivery Hero’s ecosystem and impact.

• Discovery, solution design, development, and rollout of high-quality, high-performance backend services primarily using Go (Golang)  

• Collaborate both with cross-functional teams to define the best architecture and integration strategy for new services and functionalities, and with stakeholders from engineering, product, and operations teams.

• With the support of senior engineers, participate in improving the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of our systems, optimizing the performance and cost of AWS Cloud Services (EC2, Kubernetes, S3, RDS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, etc.).

• With the support of senior engineers, implement and maintain observability tools (monitoring, logging, tracing) using platforms like Grafana, Prometheus, ELK Stack, etc., to ensure system visibility and rapid problem resolution.

• Actively participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, mitigating security vulnerabilities and reliability issues in the backend infrastructure.

• Contributing to the multi-region and multi-tenant architectures to ensure high availability and low latency globally.

• 3+ years of professional backend software development experience working on modern backend programming languages, ideally with Go (Golang), or with  Java, Python, Kotlin, PHP, NodeJS, or Scala

• Hands-on experience operating systems hosted on AWS or similar cloud service providers

• Hands-on experience with using observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or New Relic, for monitoring, alerting, and log analysis

• Experience with one of the SQL or NoSQL databases

• Experience with microservice architecture

• A passion for delivering high-quality, maintainable, and scalable code

Nice to have:

• Exposure to JVM stack / JavaScript (Typescript) / React

• Experience with DynamoDB,Experience with RESTful and publisher/producer paradigm (SNS/SQS)

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and common CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Drone, Spinnaker, and ArgoCD

• Knowledge and hands-on experience with Feature Flagging and/or A/B Testing systems

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. We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support to ensure a smooth interview experience—just include it in your application. You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.