Software Engineer, Flink
Golang
Grocery delivery service
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Grocery delivery service
1001+ employees
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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
- You have experience building scalable and reliable large-scale applications with Golang
- Comfortable with event-based communication between microservices
- Familiar with common monitoring/alerting/logging tools such as - Datadog, Stackdriver, NewRelic, Prometheus, ELK)
- Experienced with SQL databases (NoSQL is nice to have)
- Experience using cloud provider platforms like GCP or AWS, and deploying distributed services to Kubernetes. (Terraform knowledge is nice to have)
- AI-assisted development experience and enthusiasm, leveraging coding agents like GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Claude Code, or similar tools is a significant plus
- Rigor in high code quality, unit testing, and integration testing
- Proficient in applying best practice Design patterns and Design principles when building your software
- Open-minded personality, comfortable working in an Agile environment, and collaboratively making decisions with the team
- Fluent English communication skills
What the job involves
- In your role as a Software Engineer - Golang (m/f/d), you will be at the very core of our riders' journey, building the back end of our groundbreaking quick commerce platform, focused on orders and workforce-related flows
- You will find yourself in a modern software engineering environment, working in a cross-functional agile team, using a microservices architecture built in Golang, hosted on Google Cloud Platform
- Get ready to be immersed in the fast-paced environment of quick commerce, collaborating with various Flink stakeholders, and having a direct impact on our success
- Take an active position on feature development and maintenance of Workforce performance and order delivery flows across Flink’s arsenal of backend services/microservices
- Taking part in the discussion and planning of new features
- Closely collaborate with other teams to deliver value to our internal workforce responsible for fulfillment and delivery of orders, and also to our customers' order tracking experience
- Drive and own the application lifecycle from inception to production, supporting business-critical applications and services
- Be proactive towards adapting and experimenting with new technologies. AI should be your best friend to improve your deliveries and our solutions
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 their 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 over 100 different European cities across Germany,and the Netherlands 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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
346% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2024
$122.6m
LATE VC
Apr 2024
$118.1m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Oliver Merkel
(Co-Founder & Managing DIrector)Partner at Bain & Company. Co-founded Flink in December 2020.
Julian Dames
(Co-Founder & Managing Director)Consultant at Bain & Company before founding foodora, where they served as MD and Global CMO. Also served as CMO at Rappi.
Christoph Cordes
(Co-Founder & Managing Director)Began career at Adidas before becoming Manager Director at fashion4home GmbH.
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