Senior Machine Learning Ops Engineer, Flink
Grocery delivery service
Open for applications
Grocery delivery service
1001+ employees
Open for applications
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 at least 4 years of experience designing, developing, and deploying Machine Learning products
- Previous experience with architectural input into the design and build of Data/Machine Learning products
- Are proficient in Python programming and familiar with the most commonly used libraries for Machine Learning
- The ability to effectively provision and configure infrastructure needed for Machine Learning/Data products, as well as deploying/scaling and monitoring them in a public cloud environment
- Experience using and maintaining ML platforms (e.g. MLflow, Kserve, Feast)
- You are extremely comfortable navigating and translating the needs of Data Scientists into concrete and practical solutions in collaboration with Data and Platform Engineers
- A good grasp of CI/CD pipelines and IaC (Infrastructure-as-code) tools
- Open-minded personality, comfortable working in a collaborative Agile environment
What the job involves
- As a Senior Machine Learning Ops Engineer (m/f/d), you will have the opportunity to shape the future of Machine Learning at Flink by working in a dynamic, cross-functional team composed of Data Scientists, Software Engineers, and Platform Engineers
- You'll collaborate closely with other teams to innovate and optimize Flink’s machine earning ecosystem
- Utilizing a cutting-edge tech stack that includes GCP, Airflow, Git, MLFlow, Kubernetes and KServe, you will drive fast experimentation, seamless training, efficient serving, and scalable deployment of Machine Learning models
- Imagine your work powering intelligent recommendations that enhance user experiences throughout Flink’s app and marketing campaigns
- Your contributions will directly elevate the grocery shopping experience for Flink’s customers, making a tangible impact on the business
- You will create systems that automate processes needed for the lifecycle management of ML models, including model training, testing (both for code and data), monitoring, and deployment
- You will create and scale internal services that deliver real-time predictions needed for Flink’s recommendations engines that have a direct impact on consumer-facing app
- You will take a leadership role in helping the team and the rest of the organisation with the development and maintenance of Flink’s Data Products
- You will closely collaborate with other parts of the organisation like Data and Platform teams as well as internal customers of our Data products to implement the best 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 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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back within 2 weeks
346% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2024
$114.6m
LATE VC
Apr 2024
$110.4m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.4bn
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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