Senior Backend Engineer - Customer Discovery

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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. 

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Your work-life opportunity:

Customer Discovery group is expanding its core team seeking talented engineers who take pride in both the technical and business contribution of their work. You will work in one of the core teams within Glovo, responsible for delivering the right content fairly ranked to our customer apps. The team owns the backend services and the machine learning algorithms that allow relevant and up to date content to be displayed to our users.  You will work mostly with backend-based solutions and Machine Learning Services for sorting and recommendation, making sure that our systems are highly available, secure and optimised to cope with the increase in demand.

Be a part of a team where you will:

  • Work on challenging problems regarding large amounts of data processing (reads and writes).
  • 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.
  • Implement A/B testing before rolling out new functionalities.
  • Participate in high-level technical decisions.
  • Take part in product-experimentation.
  • You like complex problems and build and deliver solutions.
  • You think boldly, and challenge yourself and others to build better systems
  • You prefer strong working relationships and thrive on collaboration with your teammates, other engineering teams and stakeholders.
  • Mentor and empower other engineers around you.

You have:

  • Computer Science or similar degree.
  • Experience diagnosing and resolving performance problems in complex software systems.
  • 5+ years of Java or other backend language.
  • Experience with scripting languages (bash or similar).
  • Extensive knowledge and experience designing 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 two areas outside of merely 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 platforms.
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS). 
  • Experience with Kafka or Kinesis.
  • Experience with Spring framework

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