Engineering Manager - Search (Consumer, Global Discovery)

Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Apple Safari Mozilla Firefox Engineering Manager - Search (Consumer, Global Discovery)Full-timeCompany DescriptionAs 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 DescriptionWe are on the lookout for an Engineering Manager to lead one of our squads within the Search Domain. This squad builds and owns some of the core services that power search and discovery. These are low-latency services handling tens of thousands of queries per second across multiple markets. They must remain fast, and continuously improve in relevance. Your squad will own the full lifecycle of these services: design, build, operate, and iterate.In this role, you will guide a team of engineers, own the quality and operational health of your services, and partner closely with Product and Data Science to deliver measurable improvements to the search experience.Lead & Grow a High-Performing SquadOwn team health, engagement, and inclusion, ensuring every engineer has growth opportunities and clear career paths.Develop engineers through regular 1:1s, structured feedback, clear expectations, and performance management.Hire and onboard talent with strong backend and search infrastructure skills, while contributing to domain-wide recruiting efforts.Own Technical and Delivery OutcomesExperience delivering Conversational Search or LLM-powered search interfaces.Lead your team in delivering high-quality, maintainable services in a Java Drive Agentic Engineering adoption and a transformation towards fully Agentic SDLC.Ensure reliable sprint execution, proactive risk management, and transparent stakeholder communication. Manage cross-squad dependencies.Drive Operational ExcellenceMaintain the reliability of services through robust monitoring, alerting, and incident response. Ensure on-call readiness, runbooks, and blameless post-mortems are part of the squad's culture.Continuously improve delivery and operational health: cycle time, deployment frequency, safe reindexing rollouts, and relevance regression detection.Partner with Product & Data Science to Deliver ImpactTranslate product discovery goals and relevance targets into actionable engineering work with clear priorities.Collaborate with Data Science on experiments and A/B tests to measure relevance improvements (MRR, NDCG, click-through rates).Keep the squad aligned with business objectives and user value—ensuring improvements translate into measurable customer impact.QualificationsWe are looking for a candidate with strong leadership experience and a solid understanding of search and LLM systems.Search Technical Fluency: You are comfortable working with backend engineers in Go, Java, or Python who build search infrastructure. You understand the fundamentals of search—inverted indexes, vector search, query parsing, relevance scoring—well enough to guide your team's architectural choices, review designs, and make sound engineering trade-offs. Experience with leveraging LLMs for search improvement, or driving conversational search projects is also a plus.Agentic Engineering Best Practices: You have hands-on experience with Agentic Engineering and you are able to drive a transformation of the SDLC from traditional to fully Agentic. This improves the baseline code quality, decreases time to market and empowers the engineers to focus on higher-level problem solving and architecture.Delivery &...