Manager, Software Engineer

About the Position

We are looking for a Manager, Software Engineer to join Glovo's Budget Steering squad. This role involves leading a cross-functional team to optimize budget allocation for performance marketing.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a cross-functional squad

  • Lead engineers and data scientists across the full product lifecycle - from problem framing to production and adoption
  • Grow individuals through coaching, feedback, and clear development paths, and hire to close capability gaps
  • Set measurable goals for the team and create the conditions for the squad to hit them
  • Build a culture of ownership, proactiveness, and high engineering standards

• Own the budgeting lifecycle end to end

  • Take accountability for budget allocation across every dimension and timeline - from strategic quarterly allocation to daily bid and budget changes at campaign level
  • Drive the development of payback-based allocation models, including CLV estimation and constrained optimization
  • Consolidate a fragmented tool stack into a single budgeting platform with coherent interfaces, ownership, and roadmap
  • Balance methodological rigor with business constraints - budget caps, pacing, and channel dependencies

• Guide technical strategy and execution

  • Shape the squad's technical strategy and stay close enough to the work to be a credible partner in most technical conversations at squad and domain level
  • Make architecture and prioritization trade-offs explicit - effort, value, feasibility, and pace
  • Set the bar for reliability and data quality: uptime, correctness of allocation, and validated inputs and outputs across every source
  • Ensure solutions are built as decision products, not one-off analyses - tested, monitored, documented, and reproducible

• Partner with Product and business stakeholders

  • Work with Product Managers to define scope, trade-offs, and timelines, and to set common, measurable goals across planning cycles
  • Act as an ally of Product: negotiate constructively, know when and how to say no, and compromise without losing the long-term technical direction
  • Reduce ambiguity by asking the right questions before committing the team to build
  • Navigate a complex stakeholder network spanning marketing, finance, analytics, and central platform teams

• Drive decision-making under uncertainty

  • Provide clear recommendations despite imperfect measurement, articulating trade-offs and confidence levels
  • Navigate conflicting signals (e.g., attribution vs incrementality vs MMM) and help the team decide what to trust
  • Translate complex modeling and system behavior into clear narratives for non-technical audiences
  • Build trust in the squad's outputs over time, including when they contradict established assumptions

Requirements

• Technical Excellence

  • Depth in either of the following, with hands-on experience on cross-functional products:
    • Software Engineering: strong backend background, building scalable and reliable applications used in production every day
    • ML / MLOps or Data Science: deep expertise across the ML lifecycle and its tooling ecosystem

• People Leadership

  • Proven track record leading and mentoring engineers and/or data scientists, growing individuals, and taking accountability for a large-scale production service. Ability to mediate and resolve conflict without taking sides, acknowledging different perspectives, and building shared understanding.

• Building Systems Where Modelling Is the Core

  • Experience delivering scalable, reliable applications with data science modelling at their center - where the model output is the product, not a supporting artefact.

• Comfort with production-grade practices

  • Modular design, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, version control, and modern data/ML stacks.

• Product Collaboration & Business Acumen

  • Pragmatic and realistic. Evaluates business value against technical feasibility, and turns complex business requirements into bite-sized, deliverable work for the team. Understands which metrics matter and what a marketplace business optimizes for - or can demonstrably follow the train of thought and reach sound conclusions in an unfamiliar domain.

• Innovation & Ownership

  • Experience building new solutions from scratch and setting measurable goals for a team. Deep sense of ownership and proactiveness - comfortable operating without a clearly defined problem statement.

Nice to Have

• MarTech Domain Expertise
  • Understanding of performance marketing: budget allocation and optimization, bidding, attribution, and the dynamics of incrementality, diminishing returns, and cross-channel interactions.
• Experience building bidders or budget optimization systems is a strong plus.

We Offer

• 💪 Top-notch private health insurance
• 🍔 Monthly Glovo credit
• 💳 Cobee discounts on transportation, food, and even kindergarten expenses
• 🏊 Discounted gym memberships
• 🏖️ 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

About the Company

Glovo is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience-fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in around 65 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index.

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At Glovo, your success is defined by both results and behaviors. We hire for excellence in craft and for the Leadership Principles that shape how we think, decide, and collaborate. What you achieve matters and how you achieve it defines us. Together, they move the business forward and deliver great experiences. Learn more about our Leadership Principles here.

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.

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

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