Senior Software Engineer - Pricing & Promotion (m/f/d)

Company Description

Launched in 2021 with a simple yet bold mission, Flink set out to give people back their most valuable resource: time. We didn't just join the quick commerce race, we defined its potential. By enabling customers to order from a curated selection of over 3,000 groceries and household essentials through our user-centric app, we deliver what people need in minutes. We have fundamentally shifted the retail landscape across Germany and the Netherlands, while embedding sustainability into our core through an all-electric delivery fleet, recyclable packaging, and a focus on reducing food waste.

Today, Flink has evolved from a disruptive startup into a resilient and sustainable powerhouse. In an industry defined by rapid change, we’ve mastered the balance of hyper-efficiency and massive scale. With a network of around 160 hubs, we now bring the Flink experience to more than 22 million people, making us an integral part of the urban infrastructure. This impact is driven by a dedicated team of more than 10,000 colleagues, including a fully employed rider fleet that serves as the backbone of our operations. By generating over €550m in revenue in 2025, we have proven that our model is not only desirable but financially formidable. 

Having built a proven foundation, we are now shifting from establishing our presence to accelerating our impact. Backed by prestigious partners like Prosus, Mubadala, Bond, DoorDash, Btomorrow Ventures and REWE, and fueled by fresh investment, we are entering our next major growth phase. We are thinking bigger, expanding our footprint, and refining every link in our value chain. 

Our culture is defined by a shared bias for action and the commitment to being 1% better every day. We take ownership, stay close to the frontline, and support one another to ensure we never let another Flinker fail. We celebrate diversity and believe that our multicultural team is our greatest competitive advantage. 

Are you ready to shape the future of quick commerce with us?

In your role as a Senior Software Engineer - Pricing & Promotion (m//f/d), you will be one of our first hires into our new RevTech domain, architecting and building the future of our pricing and promotion engine. This is not just a coding role; you will be a technical leader, strategist, and instrumental in pioneering how pricing is done in real time. Working at the exciting intersection of high-performance backend engineering and AI, tackling ambiguous problems, and building resilient, scalable systems.

Job Description

• Define Technical Vision: Define and drive the 6-12 month technical vision and strategy for your engineering team, translating complex business goals into a concrete technical roadmap.
• Architect & Build: Design, develop, and operate high-throughput, low-latency backend services using GoLang and Kotlin (Spring), deployed on Kubernetes.
• Lead & Influence: Act as a strong technical leader within your team and a key influencer across the wider engineering organization. You will mentor other engineers, lead architectural discussions, and make pragmatic trade-offs to deliver customer value effectively.
• Solve Ambiguous Problems: Tackle challenging, open-ended problems in partnership with senior peers and product managers. You will be responsible for defining the 'what,' the 'how,' and the 'when,' breaking down complexity into actionable plans.
• Drive Cross-Team Impact: Lead and contribute to initiatives that span multiple engineering teams, ensuring seamless execution and delivery with minimal guidance.
• Innovate & De-risk: Champion a culture of experimentation by regularly using proofs of concept and low-cost experiments to validate architectural choices, improve planning, and mitigate risks.
• Collaborate Deeply: Work hand-in-hand with Product Managers, Data Scientists, and other stakeholders to shape product decisions and integrate cutting-edge services across Flink.
• Leverage AI Tooling: Champion the effective use of AI-powered tools across the engineering lifecycle, from accelerating development with AI Agentic Engineering to enhancing code review quality and automating routine engineering tasks. Help establish best practices for AI adoption within the team, ensuring its use is pragmatic, secure, and consistently raises the bar on engineering output.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in backend software engineering, with a proven track record of designing, building, and maintaining complex, scalable, and business-critical systems.
• Deep proficiency in GoLang and/or Kotlin (preferably with the Spring framework).
• Strong, hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, particularly Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices (we use ArgoCD).
• Demonstrable experience with modern observability stacks and a data-driven approach to system health and performance (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
• A high level of expertise in a particular platform, technology, or product category (e.g., search systems, distributed computing, ad-serving platforms) that brings unique business value.
• Proven ability to lead projects, mentor engineers, and drive technical strategy within a team or domain.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• AI-assisted development experience and enthusiasm, leveraging coding agents like GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Claude Code, or similar tools is a significant plus.

Additional Information

• A €1000 annual L&D budget as well as individual coaching options to ensure you have plenty of opportunities to learn, grow and achieve your goals
• 26 days of vacation, +1 day every year up to a maximum of 30 days
• A mobility budget of 35 EUR per month for Deutschland Ticket subsidy
• A discount on your Urban Sports Club membership
• Attractive company pension options
• Unlimited access to an e-learning and development platform, MyAcademy, including online German courses
• Online discounts with Corporate Benefits and Future Bens
• A cool discount off your personal Flink orders; be the first to test out new products!
• A modern and dog-friendly office in the heart of Berlin - lots of delicious lunch spots available within short walking distance

It is our commitment that every applicant will be evaluated according to their skills regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, or religion.