Berlin and Delivery Hero: Where global tech careers take off
Berlin has long been known for its street art, cafés, and endless energy — but these days, the city hums to a new rhythm. It’s the sound of engineers, data scientists, and founders building products that touch millions.
Berlin’s reputation as Europe’s tech capital is growing fast. The city now attracts talent from every corner of the world, offering what few other hubs can: global ambition wrapped in creativity, affordability, and a welcoming culture.
That’s exactly what drew Delivery Hero to call Berlin home — and what keeps thousands of technologists choosing to build their careers here.
“There’s about 2,500 of us in the Berlin office,” says Jenny Warnke, Director of Engineering. “People from around 100 different nationalities.”
The company’s campus mirrors the city itself: diverse, innovative, and in constant motion. From its Berlin headquarters, Delivery Hero operates in around 70 countries, creating platforms that move millions of orders a day and designing infrastructure that powers everything from real-time payments to predictive logistics.
At a glance: Delivery Hero by the numbers (H1 2025)
| Metric | Result | YoY growth |
| Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) | €24.6 billion | +11 % (like-for-like) |
| Total Segment Revenue | €7.2 billion | +25 % (like-for-like) |
| Group Operating Result | Positive for the first time | — |
Source: Delivery Hero Q2 & H1 2025 Financial Results
But numbers only tell part of the story. What makes Delivery Hero special — and what makes Berlin irresistible to tech professionals — is the chance to build with purpose in a place that feels alive. From startup-style experimentation to global-scale systems, engineers here aren’t just writing code; they’re shaping how technology connects people, cities, and cultures.
Growth opportunities without borders
Career growth at Delivery Hero doesn’t follow a single track — it scales across borders, disciplines, and life stages. In a company that spans approximately 70 countries, professional development looks less like a ladder and more like a network of paths.
When Jenny joined Delivery Hero, she led a small team of engineers focused on the company’s digital wallet product. Within a few years, that team grew into the Financial Services Tribe, a 50-person organization delivering global products like anti-fraud systems and “buy now, pay later” tools.
“I started as a senior manager … then was promoted to Director of Engineering and now lead the Financial Services Tribe,” Jenny shared during the PowerToFly event. “It’s been a journey of learning how to lead at scale while keeping people growth at the center.”
That focus on people development runs deep. Delivery Hero encourages employees to experiment with different career routes — and even to change their minds. One engineer in Jenny’s team, for instance, took on an interim manager role for nine months before deciding to return to an individual contributor path, eventually becoming a Principal Engineer.
“You shouldn’t be forced to be a manager just for the sake of salary,” Jenny said. “We want to make it possible for people to go deep as experts or grow as leaders — and sometimes to move between both.”
Across teams, that philosophy translates into real internal mobility. Employees can shift from data science to engineering, or to product management — a model that helps people expand their skills and bring new ideas to the table.
Lauren Dodson, a Principal Recruiter who relocated from Australia to Berlin six years ago, has seen it firsthand:
“One of my favorite things is watching people I hired move into new roles and grow their careers here. We’ve had data scientists becoming managers, engineers joining leadership programs — it’s really rewarding.”
Inside Delivery Hero, leadership isn’t a title — it’s a mindset. New joiners are expected to show ownership and initiative from day one, no matter their level. For Jenny and her colleagues, that sense of empowerment is what turns a job into a career — and a relocation into a long-term home.
Empowering women in tech
In tech, progress is about innovation… and inclusion. Around the world, women remain underrepresented across technical roles, holding roughly one in four positions in the industry. While the numbers are improving, gaps in access, visibility, and leadership persist, making companies that actively close them stand out.
At Delivery Hero, leaders like Jenny Warnke and Lauren Dodson are helping change that. The company has spent the last several years reshaping the hiring process to support and promote women in engineering and product leadership.
“We really look into sponsoring and supporting people day to day,” Jenny explained. “Especially for women in tech, we make sure they have visibility and opportunities.”
That commitment starts at the hiring stage. Delivery Hero has introduced inclusive hiring training, standardized interview processes, and bias-awareness workshops to ensure fairness across its recruitment pipeline. Once inside, women find a structure designed to help them thrive: mentorship programs, leadership academies, and skill-building sessions such as the I’m Remarkable workshop series, originally developed by Google.
Lauren, who co-leads several employee resource groups, shared how community plays a role in this effort:
“We have spaces where women across Delivery Hero can connect, whether they’re engineers, product managers, or new parents. There are groups for women, for parents, and for our queer community. It’s about making sure everyone has somewhere to belong.”
Family-friendly benefits also reinforce that vision. The company’s partnership with a family-support service helps employees find schooling, childcare, and emergency assistance, practical tools that make long-term careers in tech sustainable.
At its core, Delivery Hero’s approach reflects a simple belief: diverse teams build better technology. In a global organization where collaboration happens across continents and cultures, inclusion isn’t a policy, it’s an engineering advantage.
Life in Berlin — The City That Works for You
Ask anyone who’s relocated to Berlin, and they’ll tell you it’s big enough to be global, yet small enough to feel personal. A place where you can bike to work, grab a currywurst or falafel from a street vendor, and spend your weekends exploring galleries, lakes, or startup meetups.
For Lauren, Berlin offered something rare: professional growth without losing quality of life.
“I came to Berlin on holiday for three days and something about the city just spoke to me,” Lauren recalled. “Six years later, I’m still here, and I call it home.”
The city’s multicultural makeup mirrors Delivery Hero’s own. Engineers, designers, and product managers from over a hundred nationalities fill the company’s offices, making collaboration feel as global as its operations.
“We have colleagues from all over the world,” Jenny added. “In my fintech team of about 250 people, only a few are from Germany. The rest come from everywhere. It makes the work exciting, and you learn something new every day.”
Delivery Hero makes relocation easy for newcomers who want to make Berlin home. The company offers visa and immigration support, covers flights, and even provides relocation bonuses for employees moving with partners or families. There’s a dedicated mobility team that helps newcomers navigate housing, taxes, and the German bureaucracy, notoriously complex without help.
Once settled, employees discover the benefits that make life in Berlin even better:
- Five days of paid learning leave per year, with an additional €1,000 in learning budget.
- German language lessons (though most of Berlin operates comfortably in English).
- Gym memberships, meal vouchers, and flexible hybrid work.
And for parents, the support runs even deeper. Delivery Hero partners with a family service that assists with childcare, school enrollment, and emergency care, an offering that’s far from standard in tech.
Berlin’s infrastructure only amplifies that sense of balance. The city’s public transport system makes car ownership optional; its flat layout and green spaces make biking to work easy.
“I haven’t driven a car since I moved here,” Lauren laughed. “It’s a city made for people: you can walk, ride, and live sustainably.”
In a city where global meets local, work feels connected to life, not competing with it. For Delivery Hero’s teams, that means doing meaningful work and still having time to enjoy the city outside the office.
Culture that scales: Startup energy meets global reach
What makes Delivery Hero stand out is how the company manages to stay nimble while operating at a global scale.
In the tech world, companies often reach a point where innovation slows under the weight of process. Delivery Hero has taken a different path. Its teams still move fast, test bold ideas, and celebrate experiments that don’t always go as planned. Yet beneath that energy sits the stability and resources of a global enterprise serving millions of customers daily.
“We were a startup once,” Lauren said. “We still experiment like one, but now we have the systems and support of a big company.”
That balance shows up in how teams work day to day. Engineers might be iterating on a payments platform used across 70 countries, but they’re doing it with the same autonomy you’d expect from a smaller startup. Cross-functional pods pair developers with designers and product leads, giving them ownership from concept to deployment.
It’s a culture that values experimentation as much as accountability. Equal-pay policies, open feedback loops, and regular check-ins make sure that scaling never comes at the cost of fairness or transparency.
“When I joined,” Jenny recalled, “one of the first things that impressed me was our active effort to ensure equal pay, regardless of gender or background. We audit it regularly. It’s not a tagline; it’s a practice.”
For employees, that translates into trust. The kind that encourages creativity, risk-taking, and long-term commitment.
Delivery Hero’s culture thrives on that paradox: structure with room to improvise, ambition with empathy, global systems powered by local insight. It’s what allows the company to keep feeling fresh and to keep attracting people who want to build, grow, and belong.
The next chapter: Building what’s next, together
In Berlin, the streets may be lined with history — but they’re also full of possibility. It’s a city where the next idea is just as likely to come from a café table as from a conference room. That spirit of openness and experimentation runs through Delivery Hero’s culture too.
Every day, its teams build the technology that powers millions of deliveries But just as importantly, they’re building careers that cross borders, disciplines, and perspectives.
For engineers and technologists looking for meaningful work in a place that celebrates curiosity, growth, and inclusion, Delivery Hero offers a place to belong.
“Just apply,” said Jenny with a smile at the end of her PowerToFly chat.
“And,” Lauren added, “we have fun, too.”
If you’re ready to take your career global and see what life and work in Berlin can look like — explore open roles at Delivery Hero.
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