Software Engineer, Flink
Kotlin
Office located in Brunnenstraße, Berlin
Grocery delivery service
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Grocery delivery service
1001+ employees
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Office located in Brunnenstraße, Berlin
1001+ employees
Company mission
To deliver organic fresh fruit, vegetables, and other groceries directly to the homes of customers, within 10 minutes, at supermarket prices.
Role
Who you are
- At least 2 years hands-on experience with Kotlin on JVM
- Some experience with GCP is beneficial
- Experience building scalable and reliable large-scale applications
- Rigor in high code quality, unit testing, and integration testing
- Working of using infrastructure as code is desirable
- Comfortable working in cross-functional agile teams where collaboration is key
- The ability to work in a fast paced collaborative environment where you can navigate easily between different technical views
- An open-mind - nothing is impossible let’s work together to get creative and be the best we can be
- Ability to communicate in English fluently
What the job involves
- In your role as a Software Engineer - Kotlin (m/f/d), you will have the opportunity to work, build, and shape our search and recommendation platform, and define how it boosts our customer experience
- Embrace your inner creative to help design new features and solutions across Flink’s Search and Recommendation team
- Take part in the discussions and planning of new features and development of roadmaps
- Collaborate closely with other teams to deliver high value to the end user
- Drive the team towards adapting and experimenting with new technologies
- Contribute to the scaling up of the team by bringing great talent on board and developing junior team members - we never let another Flinker fail!
- Foster Flink culture promoting inclusivity, diversity, and creativity in all aspects of your day-to-day role
Our take
Online grocery delivery services in Europe range from early supermarket-specific services to the more recent success of mobile food-ordering applications. However despite thier proliferation grocery delivery services still face long waiting lists and logistic bottlenecks, with faster solutions coming with a compromise on the range and quality of products.
Flink provides an online website and mobile application for the delivery of fresh fruit, vegetables, and other organic-quality groceries to European homes. The company provides its services to 100 different European cities across Germany, the Netherlands and France, and claims that its grocery deliveries are provided at supermarket prices within 10 minutes of ordering.
Flink is one of the few remaining independent grocery delivery startups in Europe, with most of the others either having been acquired or shut down. German rival Gorillas for instance ate through its initial investments and was taken over in 2022. Flink has been playing a more conservative strategy, aiming for more steady growth, but had to receive a fresh investment round of 100 million euros in 2024 to help it outlast competitors. Rumors of a potential merger with competitor companies indicate the lengths that Flink is going to maintain its dominance in a market that, at present, is suffering from lower demand and higher costs.
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Insights
346% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2024
$108.4m
LATE VC
Apr 2024
$104.4m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- A good salary and fringe benefits
- A start-up environment with growth opportunities
- An environment where you have a lot of impact, and where your ideas immediately become reality
- A young and dynamic team
- A flexible employer
- 20% discount on your own Flink groceries
Company HQ
Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
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Leadership
Oliver Merkel
(MD)Partner at Bain & Company. Co-founded Flink in December 2020.
Julian Dames
(MD)Consultant at Bain & Company before founding foodora, where they served as MD and Global CMO. Also served as CMO at Rappi.
Christoph Cordes
(MD)Began career at Adidas before becoming Manager Director at fashion4home GmbH.
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