Senior Engineer, Golang Logistics, Rider

We are looking for an Senior Engineer (Golang) to join the Rider experience team in Logistics-Deliveries 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 Delivery Hero optimize delivery operations, supporting expansion into new areas like grocery and retail.

As part of the Deliveries Tribe within the Rider Product Line, you will help deliver the right information to riders at the right time, through personalised insights, guidance, and training that enhance rider findability, engagement, and performance.

Our team plays a critical role in ensuring a seamless and consistent Rider App experience, by building and maintaining well-structured host spaces, strong information architecture, and reusable components that empower multiple squads to contribute efficiently and at scale.

The Deliveries Tribe owns the core order delivery experience in the Rider App and ensures the smooth, reliable movement of orders from vendors to customers. This spans three key domains:

• Order Management – Order status, entry points from consumer apps, issue handling and rider login.
• Rider Fundamentals – Core rider experiences such shift management, proactive and personalised communication, and data-driven tools that improve findability, engagement, performance and safety.
• Delivery Flow – The end-to-end delivery journey, from order assignment and acceptance to navigation, pickup, and drop-off.

• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Data, and Engineering partners to identify and solve challenges in the delivery journey, with a strong focus on personalisation and rider impact.
• Design and build features that leverage personalised insights to improve rider engagement, findability, and delivery performance.
• Develop and maintain scalable, reliable systems that handle high traffic, large request volumes, and complex migrations.
• Contribute to a consistent Rider App experience by working with shared host spaces, reusable components, and a clear information architecture.
• Monitor, measure, and optimise system performance using both technical and business metrics, we live Dev Ops.
• Craft and operate high-quality, high-traffic services and APIs that power the core delivery experience and personalised rider tools.
• Participate in code reviews, debugging, and incident diagnosis to ensure stability, quality, and reliability.
• Apply modern engineering practices such as Continuous Delivery, test automation, and Agile development.
• Stay current with industry trends and continuously seek opportunities to improve how we build and operate our systems.
• Deliver meaningful value to riders, partners, and the business by staying aligned with our mission

• Golang expert with 3+ years of experience, specialising in distributed systems and large-scale applications with strong computer science foundation, including data structures, algorithms, and software design.
• Experience in cloud platform hosting via AWS and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Helm).
• Proficient in No
  
  SQL databases such as Dynamo
  
  DB or redis , and skilled in building scalable, high-performance services.
• Commitment to engineering excellence, including high-quality code, automated testing, and best practices.
• Senior engineering mindset combining user-centric product thinking, full ownership from design to production, and pragmatic collaboration.
• Strong systems thinking and problem-solving skills, able to challenge assumptions, evaluate trade-offs, and break down complex problems while keeping user impact and long-term sustainability in mind.

• Experience building and operating high-load, high-traffic systems in distributed, microservice-based environments.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, including service-to-service communication and reliability best practices.
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes for running and scaling microservices in production.
• Familiarity with CI/CD…