Engineering Manager - Quick Commerce

We are on the lookout for an Engineering Manager - Inventory Management in Quick Commerce Operations to join our team and help us build solutions that ensure accurate stock levels, efficient movement tracking, and high system reliability across our DMarts network. You will lead one of the core squads within the Dmart Tools domain, an experienced team focused on ensuring data consistency and real-time visibility across warehouses, a critical backbone of Quick Commerce.

You will manage a talented group of cross functional engineers responsible for building high-availability systems that handle millions of daily operations. Together, we will improve stock accuracy, prevent discrepancies, and ensure smooth order fulfillment in real time. This role requires strong technical leadership, deep incident management experience, and hands-on involvement in designing resilient, scalable services.

We pride ourselves on connecting research and theory to practical problems and delivering robust production systems. If you thrive in solving challenges at scale, leading high-performing teams, and driving operational excellence, a diverse, international, and inclusive workplace is waiting for you in the heart of Berlin.

 

Responsibilities

• Understand & Strategize: Gain deep expertise in the Inventory Management and Dmart domain, contributing to both tactical and long-term strategy.
   

• Incident Management & Reliability: Lead and improve incident response processes, ensuring root cause analysis, service reliability, and preventive actions across systems.
   

• Collaborate & Prioritize: Partner closely with product, operations, and engineering teams to plan and deliver mission-critical Inventory Management initiatives.
   

• Team Growth & Hiring: Foster a strong engineering culture, mentor team members, and attract top talent to scale the team effectively.
   

• End-to-End Ownership: Oversee the full lifecycle of backend systems — from design and implementation to monitoring, scaling, and recovery.
   

• Leadership & Stakeholder Management: Align stakeholders, manage expectations, and balance technical depth with business impact.
   

• Scale & Innovate: Contribute to architectural evolution, improve processes, and ensure systems remain resilient and performant under high load.

   

   

• Technical Expertise: Strong hands-on experience and leadership in Golang, microservice architecture, and production-scale distributed systems.
   

• Incident Management: Proven track record managing on-call rotations, leading post-incident reviews, and improving system observability and uptime.
   

• Leadership & Team Growth: Experience leading backend engineering teams and fostering technical excellence.
   

• Architectural Knowledge: Deep understanding of system design trade-offs (sync/async, data consistency, performance, idempotency).
   

• Tools & Infrastructure: Proficient with Git, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), and CI/CD pipelines.
   

• Collaboration & Communication: Strong communicator, decision-maker, and team player who thrives in cross-functional, global environments.

• Passion for Problem-Solving: Motivated to solve complex operational challenges in Inventory and Supply Chain domains at scale.

Ensuring you and all our Heroes are looked after, happy, and healthy is always on the menu. Because if you’re in good shape, then we’re in good shape.

• 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

• We will support you in developing yourself and your career growth opportunities: 1.000 € Educational Budget, Language Courses, Parental Support, access to the Udemy Business platform to explore a variety of online courses

• Get moving and release those wonderful, mind-boosting endorphins: Health Checkups, Mindfulness and Gym & Bicycle Subsidy

• The power of getting together over some food is unrivalled. Here are a few ways to help you do that. All the yum: Digital Meal Vouchers, Food Vouchers, Corporate Discounts. Courses and access to Internal Housing Hub                 

Ready to join our team? If you’re excited to grow, collaborate and be part of the world’s leading delivery platform, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today!

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

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 [email protected] it in your application.

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.