Flink

🏢 Enterprise (5K+)

Europe's leading quick-commerce platform delivering ~3,000 grocery products from dark-store micro-warehouses to customers' doors in approximately 30 minutes via e-bikes. Operating ~160 hubs across Germany and the Netherlands, reaching 22.5 million people. The sole surviving scaled quick-commerce operator in Europe after the exits of Gorillas and Getir, Flink confirmed company-wide EBITDA profitability in March 2026.

We're on a mission to give people back time.

📍 Offices

Brunnenstraße 19–21, 10119 Berlin, GermanyAmsterdam, Netherlands

About the Company

10,000

Employees

Late Stage (Growth)

Stage

~$1.4 billion (total across 8 rounds)

Funding

~€560–600 million (2024)

Revenue

43,000

LinkedIn Followers

📍 HQ: Brunnenstraße 19–21, 10119 Berlin, Germany

📈 Europe's sole surviving scaled quick-commerce operator and market leader in Germany/Netherlands

Legal: Flink SE · Valuation: ~$900 million (March 2026) · Share Capital: €528,767.00

Reg: HRB 241059 B (Amtsgericht Berlin (Charlottenburg))

Managing Directors: Julian Dames (CEO)

💰 Funding & Investors

Seed$12.2MJan 2021

Seed Extension$52MMar 2021

Series A$240MJun 2021

Series B$750MDec 2021

Strategic~€60–70MMay 2022

Bridge~€100MApr 2024

Growth$150M ($115M equity + $35M debt)Sep 2024

Growth$100MMar 2026

Key Investors

Prosus VenturesDoorDash (~15%)REWE Group (~20%)BOND CapitalMubadala Capital VenturesNorthzoneCherry VenturesTarget GlobalCarrefourBtomorrow Ventures (BAT)AccelTriplePoint Capital

🌐 Websites

🔗 goflink.com 🔗 careers.smartrecruiters.com/Flink3/joinus 🔗 tech-blog.goflink.com 🔗 riders.goflink.com 🔗 pickers.goflink.com

Glassdoor Rating

2.9 / 5.0(431 reviews)· 47% would recommend

Tech Stack

GoKotlinSwiftTypeScriptAngularGraphQLGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesTerraformArgo RolloutsOracle CloudOracle Retail MerchandisingOracle Fusion Cloud FinancialsCommerceToolsCloudflareSnowplowGitLabBitriseSAP Ariba

🛠️ Engineering & Work Culture

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Engineering Culture

Best-of-breed strategy combining in-house microservices with enterprise SaaS. Platform-as-product approach where internal platform teams treat engineers as customers. Regular hackathons with 50+ attendees. Startup attitude with fast-moving, ego-free feedback culture. Migrated mobile apps from React Native to native Kotlin/Swift for performance.

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Work Environment

Hybrid

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Remote Work Policy

Hybrid for corporate/tech roles at Berlin HQ; fully on-site for operational roles (riders, warehouse)

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Methodology

Agile with iterative development

Careers Page Tech Blog

🎯 Interview Process

Difficulty:Easy

Duration:~15 days average

💰 Compensation & Perks

Benefits

€1,000/year learning and development budget€30/month mobility budgetUrban Sports Club fitness discount10–20% employee discount on Flink ordersCorporate discounts via Corporate Benefits and Future BensEmployment contracts with health insurance and paid holidays for all staff including ridersRegular hackathons and Friday social events

⭐ Employee Ratings

Work Life Balance

6.4

Equality

6.0

Team Spirit

5.8

Work Atmosphere

5.6

Interesting Tasks

5.2

Salary Benefits

5.0

Communication

4.8

Career Development

4.6

Management

4.4

📊 Business Info

Key Partnerships

REWE Group (exclusive supply partner Germany, ~20% shareholder)Just Eat Takeaway.com / Lieferando (preferred partnership, September 2024)retailmediatools (advertising partner, December 2024)Oracle (enterprise ERP and cloud)

Acquisitions

Pickery (Hamburg, late 2020) – undisclosed, rebranded to FlinkCajoo (France, May 2022) – ~€100 million (French ops filed bankruptcy April 2024)

Competitors

REWE DeliveryPicnicGetir (Turkey only)Wolt MarketAmazon FreshGorillas (defunct)