Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Senior Backend Engineer, Kotlin - Quick Commerce
Barcelona, Spain
Full-time
About the Company
As part of the Delivery Hero Group, Glovo is the fastest-growing multi-category app in Spain, connecting millions of users with businesses, and couriers, offering on-demand services from more than 170,000 local restaurants, grocers and supermarkets, and high street retail stores, operating in more than 1500 cities across 25 countries. We are proud to make a significant and valuable contribution to the strategic positioning of the Delivery Hero Group on the global market through our unique expertise.
Responsibilities
In this role, you'll have the unique opportunity to combine Glovo's vibrant, fast-paced culture with the reach and complexity of the Delivery Hero Group, one of the world's largest local delivery platforms. You'll be part of a Central Team based in Barcelona, collaborating with cross-functional teams to build scalable solutions that support the entire global ecosystem of the Group.
- Working on our next-generation platform to provide food and other daily urgent needs like drinks, fruits, snacks, and batteries.
- Building reliable, scalable systems with high concurrency and eagerness to learn new languages & technologies.
- Driving for excellence in building global systems used by thousands of people.
Requirements
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.
- Experience in cloud platform hosting via AWS/GCP and terraform/cloud formation.
- 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.
We Offer
- 🍔 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.
About the Company
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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