Frontend Engineer - Web Platform

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About Glovo:

We’re a Barcelona-based startup and the fastest-growing delivery player in Europe, Hispanic America and Africa. With food at the core of the business, Glovo delivers any product within your city at any time of day.
 
Our vision and ambition are not only to make everything immediately available in your city but it is also to offer our employees the job of their lives. A job where you'll be challenged and have the most fun working in through tech-enabled experiences.

Your work-life opportunity:

At Glovo, we are on a mission to make everything accessible around the world to everyone and are scaling our engineering team to help us on this mission. As part of the exciting challenge of scaling, our focus on our testing tooling and infrastructure is becoming a priority so we are seeking software engineers who are passionate about testing and like to break things so they can be rebuilt in better ways.
 
As a frontend engineer from the Web Platform team you’ll work on scaling our codebase and tooling to accommodate our growth, enabling engineering teams to deploy and operate systems with reduced lead time and stack complexity. You’ll work on making the release and build processes of our mobile applications rock solid. Building and optimizing our mobile CI pipeline to ensure high-confidence deliveries will be a big part of your job. You’ll work with frontend engineers in other teams to understand the inside-out of the applications and find out how to improve their performance at build-time and ensure high-confidence deployments.

Be a part of a team where you will:

  • Work with the engineering teams to introduce consistent engineering practices and share learnings
  • Architect efficient and reusable front-end systems that drive complex web applications
  • Improve our front-end infrastructure and build UI components
  • Develop software using modern engineering approaches and agile principles
  • Own your deliverables from start to finish
  • Deliver high quality solutions
  • Participate in high-level technical decisions
  • Make our technology and our team scale as the business grows
  • Mentor and empower other developers around you
 You have:
  • Computer Science or similar degree.
  • 5+ years of industry experience.
  • Familiarity with modern development and build tools such as git, npm, babel, and webpack; experience with front-end JS testing tools and a comprehensive understanding of UI testing techniques
  • Strong analytical and team collaboration skills with excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Strong proficiency in Javascript
  • A solid understanding in core web and browser concepts (eg. how the browser parses and constructs a web page)
  • A solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts.
  • Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
  • Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization
  • Experience working with modern JavaScript front-end frameworks

Nice-to-haves: 

  • Experience with Vue.js
  • Some experience languages like Java/Ruby/C++/C# or equivalent

Experience our Glovo Life benefits:

  • Enticing Phantom Shares plan
  • Attractive Relocation package
  • Comprehensive Private Health Insurance
  • Cobee 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!)
  • Cool perks such as fresh fruit and healthy snacks every day, beers on Fridays, Culture Days every 2 months!
  • Discounted Gym memberships
  • Flexible working environment

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


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


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 September 30, 2019, we’re currently present in more than 22 countries across Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. 

For additional information on Glovo, please visit https://glovoapp.com/ | Twitter: @Glovo_ES | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/glovoappES/ | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/glovo-app/