As the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We are on the lookout for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Search Retrieval Domain within Global Discovery. This domain builds and operates the Tier-1 systems that power customer search across all our brands—systems that must remain highly available, low-latency, and globally scalable.
This is a pivotal leadership role where you will manage multiple squads and engineering managers, guide long-term technical strategy, and ensure that our retrieval stack evolves into a world-class platform. Lead & Scale the Domain: Manage and mentor engineering managers and senior ICs across three or more squads. Build a durable second layer of leadership and attract top engineering talent.
Own Tier-1 Search Services: Lead squads responsible for our core retrieval services—ensuring global scalability, low latency, and high availability. Champion engineering rigor and ensure practices are documented, lived, and continuously improved.
Partner Across Product & Engineering: Collaborate with Product to shape long-term search strategy and investment. M2 Leadership Experience: You have several years of experience leading multiple squads through managers. You know how to scale teams, develop leaders, and operate autonomously at domain level while aligning with tribe strategy.
A proven track record of operating or building Tier-1, highly available distributed systems. You understand performance tuning, system bottlenecks, concurrency management, and global scale operations.
Experience defining technical roadmaps, evolving architectures, and driving engineering practices. Skilled at partnering with Product to translate business priorities into feasible engineering plans. 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.
Health Checkups, Meditation, Yoga, Gym & Bicycle Subsidy
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. Digital Meal Vouchers, Food Vouchers, Corporate Discounts. 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 inclusion@deliveryhero.