Associate Director of Engineering - Revenue Tech (m/f/d)

We are creating a brand-new engineering domain: Revenue Technology (RevTech). This domain will own the full commercial technology stack that powers how the items in our assortment are selected for each hub, how they are priced, how promotions and retail media campaigns are managed, and how product data flows through the organization. It sits alongside our Consumer Tech, Operations Tech, and Platform domains.

As the Associate Director of Engineering - RevTech (m/f/d), you will be the founding engineering leader of this domain. Paired with our VP of Revenue, who leads the domain from the Product side, you will shape the technical vision, hire and grow the teams, and deliver the systems that directly drive Flink's gross profit and assortment relevance. This is a rare opportunity to build a domain from the ground up inside a company with real scale, real customers, and real urgency.

What You Will Do

Lead the RevTech engineering organization. You will inherit a small group of engineers transferring from existing domains and grow it into a cohesive, high-performing group across multiple product teams — including Assortment, Master Data & ERP, Pricing & Promotions, and Commercial Back-office.

Partner with the VP of Revenue to own the domain roadmap. Together you will prioritize across teams, balance build-vs-buy decisions, and ensure the engineering investment maps tightly to commercial outcomes like use-case coverage, GP per category, and pricing automation.

Hire and develop engineering managers and engineers. Several key roles, including an EM for Pricing & Promotions, backend and frontend engineers, and a data scientist, are open and waiting for you to shape and fill. You will also manage the relationship with an external development partner building some of our systems, ensuring quality, architecture alignment, and a clean path to internalization.

Drive technical excellence in a greenfield-meets-brownfield context. Some systems are being built from scratch; others are being transferred and evolved. You will define the technical strategy that brings coherence to this landscape — shared APIs, data contracts, service boundaries, and on-call practices across small but critical teams.

Navigate a matrix organization. Engineers functionally report into the CTO organization while being embedded in the RevTech domain. You will work closely with fellow Engineering Directors in Consumer Tech, Operations Tech, and Platform to maintain cross-domain standards, coordinate shared services, and ensure a consistent engineering culture.

Champion AI and automation across the commercial stack. RevTech's core mission is to optimize processes via intelligent systems — from data-driven assortment engines and automated pricing to product data enrichment and demand forecasting. You will identify where AI and machine learning can create step-change improvements, partner with our Data Science team to bring models into production, and foster a culture where the team continuously leverages AI to multiply its impact.

Represent engineering in commercial conversations. RevTech sits at the intersection of technology, category management, and revenue strategy. You'll regularly engage with non-technical stakeholders — Revenue, Marketing, Supply Chain — and translate their challenges into well-scoped engineering problems.

• An experienced engineering leader. You have 8+ years in software engineering with at least 3–4 years leading teams of teams (engineering managers reporting to you). You've built or significantly scaled an engineering organization before, ideally in a product-driven company.
• Excited about AI and data-driven systems. You have a strong point of view on how AI, ML, and modern automation can transform commercial operations. Whether it's applying LLMs to product data enrichment, building recommendation engines for assortment, or using predictive models for pricing — you know how to move from experiment to production and are eager to push the boundary.
• A domain builder. You have experience standing up new teams or domains — not just inheriting established ones. You're energized by ambiguity, comfortable defining scope and structure, and skilled at earning trust across functions quickly.
• Technically credible. You don't need to write code daily, but you can review architecture decisions, challenge technical trade-offs, and hold your own in discussions about system design, data modeling, API contracts, and service reliability. Experience with backend-heavy systems and system integrations (e.g., pricing engines, data pipelines, ERP integrations) is a strong plus.
• Commercially minded. You understand that engineering in this domain exists to move business metrics. You're comfortable working with concepts like gross profit, margin optimization, assortment logic, and retail media — or excited to learn them fast.
• A strong communicator and collaborator. You will operate at the seam between engineering, product, and business leadership. You need to be equally effective in a technical deep-dive, a tech strategy conversation with the CTO, and a roadmap review with the VP of Revenue.
• Pragmatic about vendor management. You have experience working with external development agencies or outsourced teams, and you know how to maintain quality and architectural coherence when not all code is written in-house.

What We Offer

• A leadership role with real ownership: you're not maintaining a domain, you're creating one
• A collaborative, low-ego leadership team that values craft and speed
• A €1000 annual L&D budget as well as individual coaching options to ensure you have plenty of opportunities to learn, grow and achieve your goals
• 26 days of vacation, +1 day every year up to a maximum of 30 days
• A mobility budget of 35 EUR per month for Deutschland Ticket subsidy
• A discount on your Urban Sports Club membership
• Attractive company pension options
• Unlimited access to an e-learning and development platform, MyAcademy, including online German courses
• Online discounts with Corporate Benefits and Future Bens
• A cool discount off your personal Flink orders; be the first to test out new products!
• A modern and dog-friendly office in the heart of Berlin - lots of delicious lunch spots available within short walking distance

It is our commitment that every applicant will be evaluated according to their skills regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, or religion.