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DEDelivery Hero

Engineering Manager - Search (Consumer, Global Discovery)(m/w/x)

Berlin
Full-timeWith Home Office
AI/ML
Data Science

Developing engineers and defining career paths for platform discovery teams at a delivery service operating in 70+ countries. Solid understanding of LLM systems and platform discovery technologies required. €1,000 educational budget, language courses, 27 days holiday.

Requirements

  • Strong leadership experience
  • Solid understanding of search and LLM systems
  • Experience mentoring engineers
  • Fostering inclusion
  • Giving structured feedback
  • Building positive, productive team environment
  • Ability to grow engineers into senior technical roles
  • Creating a culture of ownership
  • Comfort working with backend engineers in Go, Java, or Python
  • Understanding of search fundamentals (inverted indexes, vector search, query parsing, relevance scoring)
  • Ability to guide architectural choices, review designs, and make sound engineering trade-offs
  • Strong plus: Experience with OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, vector databases (e.g., Qdrant), or similar search technologies
  • Ability to run predictable delivery process
  • Ability to manage cross-team dependencies
  • Ensuring service reliability for low-latency, high-throughput systems
  • Experience with monitoring, on-call practices, and incident management
  • Understanding of safely rolling out changes and detecting regressions in production

Tasks

  • Foster team health, engagement, and inclusion
  • Ensure growth opportunities for engineers
  • Define clear career paths for engineers
  • Develop engineers with regular 1:1s
  • Provide structured feedback to engineers
  • Set clear expectations for engineers
  • Manage engineer performance
  • Hire talent with backend and search infrastructure skills
  • Onboard talent with backend and search infrastructure skills
  • Contribute to domain-wide recruiting efforts
  • Deliver high-quality, maintainable Java services
  • Ensure reliable sprint execution
  • Manage risks proactively
  • Communicate transparently with stakeholders
  • Manage cross-squad dependencies
  • Maintain service reliability
  • Implement robust monitoring and alerting
  • Manage incident response
  • Ensure on-call readiness
  • Develop and maintain runbooks
  • Foster blameless post-mortems
  • Continuously improve delivery and operational health
  • Optimize cycle time and deployment frequency
  • Ensure safe reindexing rollouts
  • Detect relevance regressions
  • Translate product discovery goals into engineering work
  • Define clear priorities for engineering work
  • Collaborate with Data Science on experiments
  • Conduct A/B tests for relevance improvements
  • Measure relevance improvements (MRR, NDCG, click-through rates)
  • Align squad with business objectives
  • Align squad with user value
  • Ensure improvements create measurable customer impact

Education

  • Bachelor's degreeOR
  • Master's degree

Languages

  • EnglishBusiness Fluent

Tools & Technologies

  • Go
  • Java
  • Python
  • OpenSearch
  • Elasticsearch
  • Qdrant

Benefits

More Vacation Days

  • 27 days holiday
  • Additional holiday days for service

Additional Allowances

  • €1,000 educational budget
  • Bicycle subsidy
  • Digital meal vouchers
  • Food vouchers

Learning & Development

  • Language courses
  • Udemy Business platform access

Family Support

  • Parental support

Healthcare & Fitness

  • Health checkups
  • Yoga
  • Gym subsidy

Mental Health Support

  • Meditation

Competitive Pay

  • Employee share purchase plan

Workation & Sabbatical

  • Sabbatical bank

Public Transport Subsidies

  • Public transportation ticket discount

Other Benefits

  • Life and accident insurance

Retirement Plans

  • Corporate pension plan

Corporate Discounts

  • Corporate discounts
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