Software 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
- 2 years of commercial experience with Golang
- 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 an Agile environment and making decisions in a collaborative way with the team
- Fluent English communication skills
What the job involves
- In your role as a Software Engineer (Golang) (m/f/d), you will get the chance to join the Supplier Integrations team that is at the center of what we do
- It skillfully handles a wide variety of data from different suppliers
- This team is key in turning complex data into useful insights that improve our processes and ensure everything runs smoothly across our hubs and key systems
- The work of the Supplier Integrations team is crucial for driving Flink's success, as they tackle the challenges of different kinds of data and complex setups to make a big impact on our business
- Help the team with building services and feature development across Flink’s web and mobile app ecosystem targeting international users across Flink’s shops, warehouses and delivery workforce
- Take part in the discussion and planning of our platform development and microservices architecture
- Closely collaborate with other teams to deliver value to the end-user
- Drive and own the application lifecycle from inception all the way through to production, supporting business-critical applications and services
- Be proactive towards adapting and experimenting with new technologies
- Contribute to scaling up the web team and bringing great talents onboard by conducting interviews and code pairing sessions
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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346% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2024
$111m
LATE VC
May 2023
$166.4m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.3bn
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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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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