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.
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Your work-life opportunity:
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Orders team. This team owns one of the most fundamental parts of the system (orders domain) with a mission to make it easy to extend, work with, scale, and analyse.
Orders team is a core team of senior backend engineers who are mostly focused on tackling technical challenges of decoupling and scaling orders subsystem. The team is successful if the service can scale 5x at any time to support company growth, if other teams can easily build new features on top of Orders, and if the business is enabled to open and experiment with new verticals.
- Lead a team of 5-8 engineers and be responsible for the growth and happiness of the team members.
- Be accountable for all things in your team including delivery of projects, quality of the implemented solutions, hiring and the performance of your team.
- Provide bottom-line ownership for your systems and software.
- Work closely with the technical product manager of your team to prioritize the right things and ensure engineering needs are also being worked on.
- Make sure your team is building things the right way and always keeping quality at the forefront of what you do.
- Be the contact point for your team and ensure you shield your team from distractions while still keeping them informed of the priorities.
- Lead by example and motivate your team while bringing in new ideas on how to improve their way of working.
You have:
- An empathetic, inclusive and curious attitude
- A passion to make a positive impact on the life of millions of people through technology
- Technical background in backend development
- At least 7 years of experience in software engineering roles and agile environments
- Extensive experience working with microservices and ability to facilitate architecture discussions
- Demonstrated experience in leading teams and coaching/mentoring engineers
- You are data-driven, self-motivated and understand the importance of owning the work you do and its quality
- You are capable of being hands-on when needed and can help the team in technical discussions where it makes sense
- You thrive in dynamic environments
- Excellent spoken and written English is a must
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 Phantom Shares plan
- Comprehensive Private Health Insurance
- Spanish lessons
- Discounts on kindergarten, transportation, and food
- Free monthly Glovo credits to spend on our restaurant products (and zero Glovo delivery fee on all Glovo orders!)
- Fresh fruit and healthy snacks every day, fun with colleagues on Fridays, Culture Days every 2 months,
- Continuing education opportunities, opportunities to grow your skills, acquire new ones and share your learnings with others!
- An environment where you are actively encouraged to bring your authentic self to work in a safe, diverse, collaborative experience.
- Discounted Gym memberships
- Flexible time off (take the time you need)
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
Glovo is transforming the way consumers access local goods, enabling anyone to get almost any product delivered in minutes. Our on-demand logistics connect customers with independent local couriers who acquire goods from any restaurant or store in a city, as well as deliver urgent packages for a variable fee. As of 2020, we’re currently present in more than 22 countries across Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
For additional information on Glovo, please visit https://jobs.glovoapp.com/en/careers