Director, Engineering - (Logistics, Optimization)

Company Description

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.

Job Description

We seek a  Director of Engineering,  Logistics Optimization to join our Logistics Rider - Optimization Tribe to help us create a fast, efficient, and reliable delivery experience. You will be leading a tribe of highly talented people passionate about building products that optimize the way our riders deliver orders to millions of customers every day in a way that enables a thriving ecosystem for all of its participants. If you are a creative problem solver hungry for a new adventure, an international workplace awaits you in the heart of Berlin!

In our Logistics Team, you’ll tackle high-impact challenges that make last-mile delivery efficient, affordable, and sustainable. Your work will directly improve experiences for riders, end customers, and vendors across the globe. Each enhancement you contribute will help Delivery Hero optimize delivery operations, supporting expansion into new areas like grocery and retail.

• Lead and Scale High-Performing Teams: Directly manage 3-6 engineering managers, staff+ level individual contributors, and oversee an organization of 30+ engineers, fostering a high-performance culture, clarity of expectations, and alignment with organizational goals.

• Define and Execute Strategic Vision: Develop and implement technical and team strategies that align with business objectives, ensuring your tribe delivers impactful and scalable solutions.

• Drive Business Impact Through Collaboration: Build and maintain strong partnerships with Product and Operations leaders to align on priorities, OKRs, and roadmaps, ensuring your tribe’s work directly contributes to business success.

• Promote a Culture of Transparency and Growth: Foster open communication, accountability, and continuous improvement by providing 360-degree feedback and sharing achievements and failures across the engineering community.

Qualifications

• Strong Computer Science Fundamentals: Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and computational complexity, particularly in areas like the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP), Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP)

• Experience with Time-Critical Systems: Proven track record of managing highly reliable, scalable 24/7 systems such as financial trading platforms, ride-hailing services, e-commerce checkouts, bidding systems, or last-mile logistics.

• Technical Strategy and Roadmapping: Ability to define and execute long-term technical strategies, including tackling tech debt, scalability bottlenecks, and performance optimization.

• Incident Management and Operational Excellence: Expertise in handling critical incidents, post-mortem analysis, and implementing preventive measures to ensure system reliability.

• Budget and Resource Governance: Experience managing budgets, optimizing cloud costs, and ensuring efficient resource allocation across teams and projects.

• Soft Skills: Strategic Decision-Making, Stakeholder Management, Business Acumen, Strong Communication skills and Coaching & Mentorship

Additional Information

Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after, happy, and healthy is always on the menu. Because if you’re in good shape, then we’re in good shape.

• Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week

• We offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service

• We will support you in developing yourself and your career growth opportunities: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.

• Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Meditation, Yoga, Gym & Bicycle Subsidy

• Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we’ll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank,  Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan

• The power of getting together over some food is unrivaled. Here are a few ways to help you do that. All the yum: Digital Meal Vouchers, Food Vouchers, Corporate Discounts. Courses.

Ready to join our team? If you’re excited to grow, collaborate and be part of the world’s leading delivery platform, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today!

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.