Senior Backend Engineer, Kotlin - Quick Commerce

Were hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Quick Commerce Global Services team powering Delivery Hero - based in Glovo Barcelona.

YOUR MISSION

In this role youll be part of a central team within Delivery Heros Global Services unit shaping solutions that serve our entire global ecosystem and your work will drive impact across Delivery Heros regional brands worldwide. Youll be working with cross-functional teams to build scalable solutions that enhance customer experiences and operational excellence on a global scale. Its a unique opportunity to combine Glovos vibrant fast-paced culture with the reach and complexity of one of the worlds largest local delivery platforms.

THE JOURNEY

• Working on our next generation platform to not only provide food for our hungry customers but also other daily urgent needs like drinks fruits snacks but also batteries.

• You are not shying away from building reliable scalable systems with high concurrency and are always eager to learn new languages & technologies. Your decisions will make an impact since your ideas & efforts do matter.

• Eventually you are not afraid to build global systems which are used by thousands of people and constantly drive for excellence.

• Building efficient and elegant solutions for our new features with a bleeding edge technical stack (ES6 Typescript React Webpack).

Qualifications :

WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE RIDE

• Experience in the context of distributed systems and web services(RESTful gRPC).

• Experience in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices Event-Driven and RESTful Services).

• 5 years of experience in production-grade applications. 

• High-level skills using Kotlin and/or Java.

• Demonstrable skills with PostgreSQL and MongoDB 

• Experience in working with agile methodologies.

• Experience with commonly used observability tools for monitoring/alerting/logging/ distributed tracing such as Grafana Prometheus and Datadog.

• Experience with message brokers (SNS/SQS Kafka or Pub/Sub).

• Rigor in high code quality automated testing and other engineering best practices.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

• Curious open-minded with a growth mindset thriving on continuous feedback.

• You believe in cross-functional teams and know that responsibility does not end with deployment.

• Experience in cloud platform hosting via AWS/GCP and terraform/cloud formation.

• You are running maintaining & deploying your own code to production.

• Being able to learn  and collaborate in the code base of other backend languages (python golang knowledge will be a plus). 

• Building maintaining & running a high-traffic system in a microservice environment with Kubernetes.

Additional Information :

Individuals representing diverse profiles and abilities encompassing various genders ethnicities and backgrounds are less likely to apply for this role if they do not possess solid experience in 100% of these areas. Even if it seems you dont meet our musts dont let it stop you we are all about finding the best talent out there! Skills can be learned and embracing diversity is invaluable.

We believe driven talent deserves:

• Monthly Glovo credits to satisfy your cravings!

• Discounted gym memberships to keep you energized.

• Extra time off the freedom to work from home two days a week and the opportunity to work from anywhere for up to three weeks a year!

• Enhanced parental leave and office-based nursery.

• Online therapy and wellbeing benefits to ensure your mental well-being.

Here at Glovo we thrive on diversity we believe it enhances our teams products and culture. We know that the best ideas come from a mashup of brilliant diverse minds. This is why we are committed to providing equal opportunities to talent from all backgrounds - all genders racial/diverse backgrounds abilities ages sexual orientations and all other unique characteristics that make you YOU. We will encourage you to bring your authentic self to work fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels heard. 

Feel free to note your pronouns in your application (e.g. she/her/hers he/him/his they/them/theirs etc).

So ready to take the wheel and make this the ride of your life 

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time