Engineering Manager

Engineering Manager
- Pre-ordering (m/f/d)

• Part-time
• Compensation: EUR 100,000
  - EUR 115,000
  - yearly

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.

The Pre-Ordering team is the front door of Flink: the first thing millions of customers see and touch. Every visit starts in the screens and services this team builds, from signing up and logging in to the home screen, search, categories and deals. We are looking for an experienced and passionate Engineering Manager (m/f/d) to lead this team and help customers quickly find what they came for, discover new favourites, and keep coming back.

As the Engineering Manager for Pre-Ordering, you'll play a vital role in Flink's success. You'll lead a cross-functional team that delivers end-to-end across backend, web, iOS and Android, working closely with Design and Analytics. We believe in full cross-functional teams with complete service ownership: your team owns the problem, the solution and the outcome.

Your scope covers everything a customer does before checkout: onboarding new customers, login and authentication, the user profile, Flink Prime (our subscription programme), the Explore page, search, category navigation, deals, our in-house recommender, and integrations with third-party systems. Your decisions directly affect how easily millions of customers find their groceries, how often they come back, and how well we can offer retail media to brands, an important part of Flink's revenue.

• Lead & Grow Engineers: Build a high-trust environment where engineers thrive and take ownership. You own end-to-end hiring, onboarding, and performance management, accountable for building and continuously improving how we attract talent. Ensure every team member has a clear career path and receives regular, actionable feedback. Help your team get 1% better every day.
• Drive Product & Business Impact: Partner with Product, Design, and Analytics to shape initiatives that directly impact Flink's revenue and customer experience. You'll work on challenges like improving search relevance, personalising the Explore page, making sign-up and login effortless across devices, making Flink Prime more valuable to subscribers, and creating new retail media placements without hurting the shopping experience.
• Own Critical Systems: Your team owns the systems that present our catalog to customers: the services behind the home screen, search, categories and product pages, our recommender, customer accounts and authentication, Prime subscriptions, and integrations with third-party systems. The Pricing team sets prices and promotions; your team decides how customers see them. Every session in our apps runs through these systems.
• Guide Technical Direction: Shape the technology strategy for Pre-Ordering, including how we grow server-driven UI so changes reach iOS, Android and web without waiting for an app release. Ensure your team makes the right technical decisions to deliver high-quality solutions reliably and repeatedly. You'll be included in architectural discussions, RFCs, and trade-off decisions, championing reliability, observability, and pragmatic engineering.
• Champion Operational Excellence: Set the bar for how your systems run in production. Your team owns SLIs/SLOs, monitoring, alerting and incident response for login, home, search and product pages. You'll lead blameless postmortems that drive continuous improvement.
• Reduce Toil & Accelerate Delivery: You'll have the space and support to invest in what matters: automating tests, reducing operational overhead, simplifying system complexity, and building self-service capabilities. We believe sustainable velocity comes from investing in engineering health, not just shipping features.
• Work in Focused Builds: We work in short, focused builds with clear scope and a fixed time box, in a setup similar to Shape Up. Our process is still young, and you'll help us shape how it works.
• Embrace Agentic Development: We work with codi