Staff Engineer, Python - (Logistics, AI Autopilot)

Company Description

As the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide, powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. We enable creative minds to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero.

Job Description

We are on the lookout for a Staff Engineer (Python, ML) to join the AI Autopilot team in Logistics 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, merchants and support agents across the globe. Each enhancement you contribute will help Delivery Hero optimize delivery operations, supporting expansion into new areas like grocery and retail.

We are committed to automate the daily work of support agents, providing customers a great support experience while making sure our human agents can focus on the harder problems. Our internal Agent Copilot guides our human agents with step-by-step instructions based on standard procedures and leverages LLMs to automatically interpret relevant customer details shared during chats.Your job is to take this to the next level: Virtual Agents. These new tools and services are essential to automating 85% of customer service flows, enabling full conversation and issue resolution through advanced AI—driving millions in cost savings.

• Work on our hardest problems, building a high quality, architecturally sound artificial support agent with human-like traits.

• Assist tribe/domain leads to set the technical vision and strategy.

• Be a leader and a model, setting high standards for engineering excellence, performance, scalability and security by example and mentorship

• Design and develop the architecture for features that improve the quality of automated chats, covering various problem spaces such as natural language understanding, conversational flow & engagement or handling errors & uncertainty in human language.

• Help our squads to implement and maintain scalable and reliable backend systems, integrating with major third-party AI solutions or self-hosted solutions.

• Shape processes and solutions to continuously monitor and optimize system performance. We live devops.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies in the field of AI and NLP.

• Design and guide the implementation of cutting-edge solutions that will transform the customer support industry.

• Raise the collective level of expertise within the team focusing on best practices, design patterns, and system design

• Provide the best value for our stakeholders and customers by maintaining alignment with our product vision.

Qualifications

• A Master's degree in a traditional science subject, ideally computer science, engineering  or information systems from a well-regarded university

• Over 10 years of solid professional experience developing production-grade software in Python, including 2+ years of designing technical architectures to solve complex conversational challenges using LLM technologies.

• Thrive in dynamic environments, working on cutting edge projects that often come with ambiguity. 

• Excellent technical leadership skills with the ability to lead discussions with stakeholders -  Leadership, PM, Developers,  Design teams and more

• Demonstrated ability to drive long-term design strategies that span multiple complex projects

• Proven ability to mentor team members to support their understanding and growth of software engineering architecture concepts and aid in their technical development

• Passionate about crafting simple solutions to complex engineering problems and writing readable, maintainable, well tested code

• Pragmatic and collaborative, able to work independently, make decisions, and take ownership beyond deployment.

Nice to have: 

• Experience with VertexAI

• 2+ years of  specializing in NLP and AI

• Familiar  with common CI/CD tools like ArgoCD, Drone, spinnaker.

• Familiar with common monitoring / alerting / logging tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, distributed tracing

• Proficiency in relational & document-oriented(MongoDB, Couchbase, DynamoDB, Elastic Search) databases 

• Building, maintaining & running a high traffic system in a microservice environment with kubernetes.

• Familiar with Fast API & pydantic 

Additional Information

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 with an extra day on 2nd and 3rd year of service

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

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

• Cash. Dough. Cheddar. Whatever you call it, we’ll help you with it: Employee Share Purchase Plan, Sabbatical Bank,  Public Transportation Ticket Discount, Life & Accident Insurance, Corporate Pension Plan

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

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.