Senior Node.js Engineer, Flink
Grocery delivery service
Job no longer available
Grocery delivery service
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
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
- Experience building scalable and reliable large-scale applications
- 5 years of commercial experience as a Software Engineer with expertise in Node.js, and frameworks and tools available for it, such as Express, NestJS, and Apollo Server
- As a Senior Software Engineer, we will expect you to have previous experience of ownership over projects/part of an application/system you have worked on
- You will have previous experience with architectural input into the design and build of a backend application/product/feature
- Previous experience in mentoring junior engineers
- Comfortable with event-based communication between microservices
- Familiar with common monitoring/alerting/logging tools such as - Stackdriver, Datadog, 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)
- 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 a collaborative Agile environment
- Fluent English communication skills
What the job involves
- In your role as a Senior Node.Js Engineer (m/f/d), you will play a key role in building the back end of our groundbreaking quick commerce platform
- You will find yourself in a modern software engineering environment, working in a cross-functional agile team
- You can expect to work on business-critical projects, with fast build times and no legacy code!
- Get ready to be immersed in the fast-paced environment of quick commerce, collaborating with various Flink stakeholders you will have a direct impact on our success
- Take a leadership role in helping the team with feature development and maintenance across Flink’s arsenal of backend services/microservices
- Taking part in the discussion and planning of new features
- Mentorship of our junior engineers
- Closely collaborate with other teams to deliver value to the end user
- Drive the backend chapter towards adapting and experimenting with new technologies
- Contribute to scaling up the backend team and bringing great talents onboard by conducting interviews and code pairing sessions
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
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.
Insights
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back within 2 weeks
346% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2024
$108.6m
LATE VC
May 2023
$162.8m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.2bn
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
Founders
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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