Scaling Core Apps For Delivery Hero, Local Delivery & Q-Commerce Giant
150+
Netguru experts engaged
Contributors since 2019, across a wide spectrum of technologies and roles.
30+
Professionals at peak
Teams scaled from single-person assignments up to thirty-plus specialists, depending on Delivery Hero’s priorities.
10+
Technology areas covered
From backend, mobile and data engineering through to frontend, QA and product design.
The client
Delivery Hero runs local delivery in around 70 countries through a portfolio of brands that includes Woowa, foodpanda, foodora, Yemeksepeti, talabat, HungerStation, PedidosYa and Glovo.
Between them they connect millions of customers with restaurants, grocery stores and other partners — on a platform the company keeps evolving to serve both sides of that marketplace.
The challengeWhat the teams actually needed
Operating globally meant the Berlin teams behind the core products had to scale quickly, experiment safely and reach specialist skills without waiting on a recruitment cycle.
Challenge 01A talent pool that flexes
One that could scale up or down with business cycles and shifting product priorities.
Challenge 02Expertise across several stacks
Coverage from backend and data engineering through to frontend and design.
Challenge 03Onboarding without friction
Fast integration with the internal teams, tools and workflows already in place.
What we did
A long-term team extension, embedded in Berlin
Netguru has supported Delivery Hero since 2019, with engineers, data specialists and designers working inside the core product teams’ own tools and standards.
Shared functionality used across brands
Self-onboarding so local brands such as HungerStation, talabat and foodpanda can bring partners on themselves, plus the core service APIs and reliability work behind high-traffic components.
New initiatives validated before they scale
Engineering directors bring in Netguru talent to prototype and test features, architectures and internal tools — keeping discovery quick and headcount flexible.
Decisions backed by real-time numbers
Analytics pipelines and reporting tools used for performance monitoring, forecasting and business intelligence across the brands.
A global design system, extended
Three designers joined the core design organisation in Berlin to maintain theme and asset libraries, cut design token bundle size and move the Help Centers toward full WCAG compliance.
Client testimonial
Netguru has helped us accelerate product development roadmap progress, hence speeding up time to market and impact. This has happened via diverse skillset: mobile, data or backend engineering, on various seniority levels over time.
Tech stackThe tools that made it possible
01
Go / Python / Java
Backend services behind the shared platform, from partner self-onboarding to the core service APIs used across markets.
02
iOS / Android
Native mobile engineering for the consumer apps across Delivery Hero’s brands.
03
React / JavaScript
Frontend work on internal tools and customer-facing surfaces, including the centrally managed Help Centers.
04
Python / data engineering
Analytics pipelines, dashboards and ML support feeding product and operational decisions.
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