Head of Engineering

As the world's pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide, powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe's largest tech platforms, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. We enable creative minds to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero.

About the role : 

As a part of expanding our Engineering team, we are looking for a Head of Engineering who will be responsible for keeping projects across a couple of squads on track, solving technical issues that arise, communicating with other teams and acting as an overall leader for the team. He / She will be working on multiple projects at the same time, building and managing diverse teams of engineers from different disciplines (in-house & outsourced). To succeed, you need to possess a blend of strong leadership skills and technical depth.

This role reports to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) based in Singapore.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Providing clear and concise direction to the engineering team on their deliverable, supervising their work, and driving product releases / project completion as per the timelines decided.
• Lead technical solution designs with the entire team; be a sounding board & guide the team for any tech-related issue.
• Work closely with the product managers, engineering managers, architects and designers to refine stories, discuss, and finalize release timelines, and attend relevant meetings with stakeholders. 
• Communicate technical direction to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide guidance to ensure the overall architecture and solutions are very well designed for the long-term while also driving a pragmatic approach to deliver results in phases that are aligned with business value. 
• Ensure optimal application of engineering resources to meet product development and consumer requirements and ensure the implementation of agile processes. 
• Design the entire solution from ideation and visual design through the SDLC, life cycle activities such as extending or updating a system, planning retirement of a system. 
• Getting hands-on with code rollouts as and when required to ensure releases go out in a timely and accurate fashion. 
• Hire, onboard and build a team of capable engineers, both in-house and through outsourced agencies.

• 15+ years of Engineering experience, with at least 3 years as a Sr. Engineering Manager / Director of Engineering / Head of Engineering  preferably across a start-up / mid-sized company

• Experience of building and growing a team is highly preferred. 

• Excellent communication, able to manage multiple stakeholders across other departments in the organization

• At least 3 years experience operating and managing production systems in a Kubernetes environment is a must have

• Hands-on software engineer who can just roll up his / her sleeves anytime to make various changes in the code and design, as necessary. 

• Excellent knowledge in following tech stack: Java, Springboot, Javascript, HTML, , MySQL, MongoDB, AWS / GCP, microservice architecture

We believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support to ensure a smooth interview experience—just include it in your application. You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.