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DEDelivery Hero

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

Berlin
Full-timeWith Home OfficeExperienced

Leading search engineering squad, focusing on LLM integration for global discovery. Agentic engineering and search fundamentals experience required. 27 days holiday plus extra day, 1000 EUR educational budget.

Requirements

  • Solid understanding of search and LLM systems
  • Comfortable working with backend engineers in Go, Java, or Python
  • Understanding of search fundamentals (inverted indexes, vector search, query parsing, relevance scoring)
  • Experience leveraging LLMs for search improvement or driving conversational search projects
  • Hands-on experience with Agentic Engineering
  • Ability to drive SDLC transformation to fully Agentic
  • Experience running predictable delivery processes
  • Experience managing cross-team dependencies
  • Experience ensuring service reliability for low-latency, high-throughput systems
  • Experience with monitoring, on-call practices, and incident management
  • Understanding of safe change rollouts and regression detection
  • Experience mentoring engineers
  • Experience fostering inclusion
  • Experience giving structured feedback
  • Experience building a positive, productive team environment
  • Ability to grow engineers into senior technical roles
  • Ability to create a culture of ownership

Tasks

  • Lead and grow a high-performing engineering squad
  • Own team health, engagement, and inclusion
  • Ensure engineers have growth opportunities and clear career paths
  • Develop engineers through regular 1:1s and feedback
  • Manage engineer performance and set clear expectations
  • Hire and onboard talent with backend and search skills
  • Contribute to domain-wide recruiting efforts
  • Own technical and delivery outcomes for services
  • Deliver high-quality, maintainable services in Java
  • Drive Agentic Engineering adoption
  • Transform towards a fully Agentic SDLC
  • Ensure reliable sprint execution
  • Manage proactive risk management
  • Communicate transparently with stakeholders
  • Manage cross-squad dependencies
  • Maintain service reliability through monitoring and alerting
  • Respond to incidents
  • Ensure on-call readiness
  • Maintain runbooks and conduct blameless post-mortems
  • Continuously improve delivery and operational health
  • Improve cycle time and deployment frequency
  • Manage safe reindexing rollouts
  • Detect relevance regressions
  • Translate product discovery goals into engineering work
  • Set clear priorities for engineering tasks
  • Collaborate with Data Science on experiments and A/B tests
  • Measure relevance improvements using metrics like MRR, NDCG, and click-through rates
  • Align the squad with business objectives
  • Ensure improvements translate into measurable customer impact

Work Experience

  • approx. 1 - 4 years

Education

  • Bachelor's degreeOR
  • Master's degree

Languages

  • EnglishBusiness Fluent

Tools & Technologies

  • Go
  • Java
  • Python
  • LLMs

Benefits

More Vacation Days

  • 27 days holiday
  • Extra holiday day

Additional Allowances

  • 1000 EUR 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 insurance
  • Accident insurance
  • Interview accommodation support
  • Pronoun sharing option

Retirement Plans

  • Corporate pension plan

Corporate Discounts

  • Corporate discounts
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