Company Description

Flink is the leading quick commerce player in Europe. We are on a mission to give people back time: You can order your groceries through our app and we deliver to your doorstep in minutes. We carry 3,000 products with a focus on the leading brands in each category. We aim for sustainability by making deliveries on electric bikes and utilizing recyclable packaging.

Flink launched in February 2021 and already operates in more than 90 cities in Germany, and the Netherlands. The business generated more than EUR 400m in revenues in 2024 and is operationally profitable. Flink is backed by the world’s most renowned tech investors, including Prosus, Mubadala, and Bond, and strategic investors like Doordash and REWE. We take great pride in being an inclusive employer that offers equal opportunities, and we celebrate the diversity and multiculturalism of our team. We're growing fast and always pushing ourselves to do better - we play for #1.

In your role as a Software Engineer - Golang (m/f/d), you will be at the very core of our riders' journey, building the back end of our groundbreaking quick commerce platform, focused on orders and workforce-related flows. You will find yourself in a modern software engineering environment, working in a cross-functional agile team, using a microservices architecture built in Golang, hosted on Google Cloud Platform. Get ready to be immersed in the fast-paced environment of quick commerce, collaborating with various Flink stakeholders, and having a direct impact on our success.

Job Description

• Take an active position on feature development and maintenance of Workforce performance and order delivery flows across Flink’s arsenal of backend services/microservices;
• Taking part in the discussion and planning of new features;
• Closely collaborate with other teams to deliver value to our internal workforce responsible for fulfillment and delivery of orders, and also to our customers' order tracking experience;
• Drive and own the application lifecycle from inception to production, supporting business-critical applications and services;
• Be proactive towards adapting and experimenting with new technologies. AI should be your best friend to improve your deliveries and our solutions.

Qualifications

• You have experience building scalable and reliable large-scale applications with Golang;
• Comfortable with event-based communication between microservices;
• Familiar with common monitoring/alerting/logging tools such as - Datadog, Stackdriver, NewRelic, Prometheus, ELK);
• Experienced with SQL databases (NoSQL is nice to have);
• Experience using cloud provider platforms like GCP or AWS, and deploying distributed services to Kubernetes. (Terraform knowledge is nice to have);
• AI-assisted development experience and enthusiasm, leveraging coding agents like GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Claude Code, or similar tools is a significant plus.
• Rigor in high code quality, unit testing, and integration testing;
• Proficient in applying best practice Design patterns and Design principles when building your software;
• Open-minded personality, comfortable working in an Agile environment, and collaboratively making decisions with the team;
• Fluent English communication skills.

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.