Backend Engineer - Contact

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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 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.

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

The Contact Delivery team ’s mission is to improve the delivery experience of 10s of thousands of Glovo couriers when they need support by reducing the human intervention to an absolute minimum. The team builds features which automate the support process during delivery thus greatly improving the delivery experience and courier efficiency.We work in a small, focused and autonomous agile product team, make data driven decisions and ship the code to production instantly through our continuous delivery pipeline. The team is comprised of Backend and Mobile Engineers (iOS and Android), Product Manager and Data Engineer. We foster a supportive and collaborative environment where we encourage knowledge sharing, continuous improvement and adapting new ideas. We own what we build and this means - designing- implementing-and shipping, building comprehensive observability, ensuring quality through automated tests, running A/B tests and arranging on-calls.

Be a part of a team where you will:

 

  • Actively collaborate with your colleagues and learn from each other in a supportive environment that allows you to grow, develop and make a difference
  • Work on challenging problems regarding large amounts of data processing (reads and writes)
  • Work on the dynamic pricing logic together with data-scientist.
  • 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.
  • Work with machine learning engineers to optimize ML Models for production
  • Participate in high-level technical decisions.
  • Take part in product-experimentation.

You have:

  • An empathetic, inclusive and curious attitude
  • Computer Science or similar degree.
  • Experience diagnosing and resolving performance problems in complex software systems.
  • 4+ years of relevant full-time experience.
  • Strong Java or Other 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!

Nice-to-haves:

  • Experience in managing distributed services/microservices platform
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
  • Experience with Kafka or Kinesis.

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: We work with energy, innovation and passion for what we do. We are committed.
  • Care: We act in the best interest of a sustainable future.
  • Good vibes: We always see the positive side in every situation and act with fairness and honesty with everyone regardless of gender, sexual orientation, religion, and abilities.
  • Stay Humble: We embrace mistakes and feedback to learn from them.
  • Glownership: We roll up our sleeves and get work done no matter our position and level.

If you believe you match these values, we look forward to meeting you!

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