Manager, Software Engineering, Java​/Kotlin Logistics, Algorithmic Pricing

Job Description

We are on the lookout for an Engineering Manager (Java/Kotlin) to join the Algorithmic Pricing team on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences.

In our Logistics Team, you’ll tackle high-impact challenges that make last-mile delivery efficient, affordable, and sustainable. Your work will directly improve experiences for riders, end customers, and merchants across the globe. Each enhancement you contribute will help the company optimize delivery operations, supporting expansion into new areas like grocery and retail.

You would lead our Algorithmic Pricing squad who help us maintain a comprehensive, fast and reliable service that calculates pricing across all the company brands, based on pricing strategies set up by our pricing managers.

If you are a creative problem solver who is hungry for a new adventure and working with large-scale distributed systems, an international workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Berlin!

• Support an established team of engineers in their day-to-day development experience, personal development, and long-term career growth.
• Own the execution and development of functionalities in small iterations that deliver value.
• Ensure the high reliability of a low-latency high-throughput system that powers the delivery fees of 60+ countries and all the company brands.
• Partner with your product counterpart and provide technical direction to your team, facilitating the design of feasible and iterative solutions aligned with the business needs.
• Own the tech metrics and KPIs of your team, ensuring full visibility, tracking, and alerting.
• Provide technical support for the design of solutions that are reliable, performing, cost-effective, and scalable to meet the business needs.

• You empowering skills make you a compassionate and trusted guide
• You are a knowledgeable technical guide who aligns with and supports product and business goals.
• You are programing language agnostic with a clear understanding of core concepts, and paradigms, and can abstract this knowledge to multiple scenarios.
• You are familiar with languages such as JVM technologies (Java/Kotlin)
• You have experience working with IaaC setups; most of our infrastructure runs on Kubernetes deployed in AWS.
• You are comfortable with microservices architectures, as well as API-based and event-based communication.
• You are a practical and resourceful technical guide who knows what is needed to achieve results
• You believe in cross-functional teams and have experience managing dependencies across tasks and teams.
• You care about your team and your own personal and professional development.

• You are familiar with A/B testing
• You have worked in Pricing topics.
• You can be hands-on on demand to support and guide more junior developers.

• Make the most of our hybrid working model and join the team for face-to-face connection and collaboration in our beautiful Berlin campus 2 days a week
• We offer 27 days holiday with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service
• We will support you in developing yourself and your career growth opportunities: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support and access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses.
• Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins:
  Health Checkups, Meditation, Gym & Bicycle Subsidy
• Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we’ll help you with it:
  Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank, Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan
• The power of getting together over some food is unrivaled. Here are a few ways to help you do that. All the yum:
  Digital Meal Vouchers, Food Vouchers, Corporate Discounts. Courses.

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 let us know with an email to our Inclusion Officer at hr@unitedstatesdigital.space.

Severely disabled applicants with equal qualifications will be given preferential consideration.

You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.