Senior Software Engineer, Flink
Dispatching
Office located in Brunnenstraße, Berlin
Grocery delivery service
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Grocery delivery service
1001+ employees
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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
- Experience building scalable and reliable large-scale applications
- 5 years of commercial experience as a Senior Engineer with expertise in G, Java, TypeScript or other OO or functional languages
- You have familiarity with optimization algorithms or techniques, and in particular with the challenges of applying them in real-world settings
- You will have previous experience of architectural input into the design and build of a backend application/product/feature
- Comfortable with event-based communication between microservices
- Familiarity with data storage and message brokering tools such as Google Pub/Sub, Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, etc
- Experience using cloud provider platforms like GCP or AWS, and deploying distributed services to Kubernetes. (Terraform knowledge is nice to have)
- It would be nice If you have previous experience designing and developing high-availability systems with high data/events throughput
- Proficient in applying best practice Design patterns and Design principles when building your software
- Fluent English communication skills
What the job involves
- Our Dispatching System is the heart and brain of our order fulfillment process. The system automatically manages the packing and riding of tens of thousands of orders in 3 countries daily
- We are on a mission to give people back time, so our backend engineers are continuously improving optimization algorithms to reduce delivery time while increasing our operational efficiency. This is an amazing opportunity for those who are driven by mathematical challenges!
- Take a leadership role in helping the team with feature development and maintenance across Flink’s arsenal of backend services/microservices
- Take part in the discussion and planning of new features
- Closely collaborate with other teams to deliver value to the end user
- Opportunity to influence the technical landscape by driving the adoption of different best practices and multiplying the engineering output that drives business impact
- Contribute to scaling up the backend team and bringing great talents board by conducting interviews and code pairing sessions
- We have a “you build it, you own it and you monitor it” mentality here at Flink. As a Senior Software engineer, you will ship your code using Kubernetes and monitor using DataDog
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
$110.2m
LATE VC
May 2023
$165.3m
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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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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