Backend Engineer - Checkout

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About Glovo:

We’re a Barcelona-based startup and the fastest-growing delivery player in Europe, Africa, and Western Asia. With food at the core of the business, Glovo delivers any product within your city at any time of day.

At Glovo, you’ll have the job of your life while working together towards our shared vision to give everyone easy access to anything in their city. We welcome top performers that will bring new ideas, diverse perspectives, and provide you the opportunities and freedom to grow and make a real impact on millions of lives… all while having fun!

We believe that diversity adds incredible value to our teams, our products, and our culture. We know that the best ideas and solutions come by bringing together people from all over the world and by fostering a culture of inclusion where everyone feels included and has the chance to make a real impact. It's because of this that we are committed to providing equal opportunities to talent from all backgrounds. 

In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example: she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).

 

YOUR WORK-LIFE OPPORTUNITY:

Checkout team seeks talented engineers eager to tackle technical challenges and deliver direct impact to Glovo’s bottom line.  You will work with one of the core teams within Glovo, responsible for building a rock-solid and performant checkout experience to our customers. We’ve rebuilt checkout to be entirely backend driven thus providing a more flexible and scalable infrastructure upon which to experiment and create even richer customer experiences. You will work alongside mobile and web engineers to build and test new features. You will improve and maintain our backend systems to ensure that they are highly available and consistently enabling our customers to complete their orders with confidence.


BE A PART OF A TEAM WHERE YOU WILL:

  • Work on challenging problems and constantly improve the usability of our applications.
  • Develop software using modern engineering approaches and agile principles.
  • Make our technology and our team scale as the business grows.
  • Own your deliverables from start to finish.
  • Deliver high-quality solutions.
  • Participate in technical decisions.
  • Take part in product-experimentation.

YOU HAVE: 

  • Experience diagnosing and resolving performance problems in complex software systems.
  • 5+ years of relevant full-time experience.
  • Strong Java or other high level language skills.
  • Experience with scripting languages.
  • Extensive knowledge of object-oriented programming and software architecture.
  • Strong will to adhere to best practices in OO development and a need to leave well-structured code in your tracks.
  • The urge to write automated tests.
  • Knowledge of relational databases and other approaches to data management.
  • Knowledge of concurrency and Event-Driven Development.
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Vivid interest in at least one area outside of coding (architecture, algorithms, optimization, automation, scalability, etc.)
  • You have strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

We are always looking for the best candidates, so if you think you would be a good fit even if you don't meet 100% of the requirements we would love to hear from you!

EXPERIENCE OUR GLOVO LIFE BENEFITS:

  • Enticing equity plan
  • Top-notch private health insurance
  • Monthly Glovo credit to spend on our restaurant products and zero delivery fee on all Glovo orders!
  • Cobee discounts on kindergarten, transportation, and food
  • Discounted gym memberships
  • Flexible time off (take the time you need) and hybrid working model (own your time)
  • Enhanced parental leave including nursery support!
  • Online therapy and wellbeing benefit
  • External learning budget

 

WHAT YOU’LL FIND WHEN WORKING AT GLOVO:

  • Gas: Driven to deliver quality results quickly
  • Good Vibes: Bring positivity and communicate openly
  • Stay Humble: Self-aware and open to learning
  • Care: Uplift people and the planet
  • Glownership: Act as proud owners
  • High Bar: Focus on Top Performance

At Glovo we believe that diversity adds incredible value to our teams, our products, and our culture. We know that the best ideas and solutions come by bringing together people from all over the world and by fostering a culture of inclusion where everyone feels heard and has the chance to make a real impact. It's because of this that we are committed to providing equal opportunities to talent from all backgrounds.