Engineering Manager, Flink
Operations Tech
Office located in Brunnenstraße, Berlin
Grocery delivery service
Posted today
Grocery delivery service
1001+ employees
Posted today
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
- You will bring 3+ years of experience building multi-platform applications (web, mobile - iOS and Android, and backend)
- In Addition, you will have 2+ years of 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
- Significant experience in applying different architecture patterns like microservices, event-driven systems, micro frontends, etc
- A strong interest in the business problems we are solving, and empathy with our users
- Adept at developing in one or more common programming languages such as Go, Kotlin, Swift, and/or JavaScript
- Being a good listener, but can also effectively communicate their perspective
- Highly self-driven, professional personality with an aspiration to excel in your role
- Capable of taking both the big picture and also getting into details when it is appropriate to do so
- Business fluency in English
What the job involves
- In your role as Engineering Manager - Operations Tech, you will shape one of our engineering teams by growing and managing it, conducting in-depth analysis, and directly impacting the business by contributing to product ideation and implementation
- Our engineering organisation is critical in ensuring Flink delivers a best-in-class service
- The Operations Tech Domain focuses on building solutions to bring our operations to unforeseen optimization levels and, at the same time, keep our service levels to provide a great experience to our consumers
- This covers the full life cycle of our business, from the integration with our partners/suppliers to the delivery of the goods to the customer
- Always ensuring that our solutions are intuitive and user-friendly, and that each person involved in this process has a journey that is seamless, delightful, and efficient
- We believe in empowering autonomous teams with challenging missions, allowing them to develop solutions that have a strong and measurable impact on both our customers and business
- Lead a cross-functional engineering team responsible for developing and enhancing features across for our rider lifecycle, including web, mobile and backend
- 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 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
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
346% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2024
$122.9m
LATE VC
Apr 2024
$118.4m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.5bn
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
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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