Senior Backend Engineer - Vení a vivir a Barcelona!

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At Glovo we are constantly looking for passionate and experienced engineers to join our team Barcelona office. 
 
You are someone who loves working in a high-paced startup environment. You enjoy tackling different problems and take pride in delivering strategic, well designed, flexible and easy to use solutions. You work well with other top-level engineers and value constructive feedback that helps you grow as a professional. You are not afraid of getting your hands dirty with a platform or technology that you don’t know, and are always eager to learn something new.
 
 

You will:

  • Be part of one of these amazing teams: Customer Experience, Customer Solutions, Dispatching, Content and Pricing, Partners, Growth, B2B, Courier Experience, Platform.
  • Write robust, maintainable backend code
  • Maintain and improve APIs used by both Glovo and external integrators
  • 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 production ML Models
  • Participate in high-level technical decisions
  • Mentor and empower other developers around you

Requirements:

  • Experience diagnosing and resolving performance problems in complex software systems
  • 5+ years building applications at scale
  • You have strong written and verbal communication skills
  • You're passionate about software design and have good testing skills
  • Proficiency in either Java or Go
  • Experience with relational databases
  • Experience with API design
  • Ability to empathize with a diverse range of engineers
  • Communicate well and be willing to engage with your teammates in group problem solving
  • Experience with complex Java and Go codebases
  • Good English! (We work in a super fun international environment)
  • Our core values are very important to us:
Gas: We think big and take calculated risks to go for all business opportunities, no matter how challenging they are! We work hard as a team and execute fast.

Everyone Wins: We are here for the long run. Glovers, Partners, and Users are in the very center of everything we do. If they win, Glovo wins. So for every decision, we make sure we are positively impacting them.

Good vibes: Our teams are built of people that radiate positive energy and managers that are honest and fair. No assholes allowed! We stay optimistic no matter what, infecting each other with positivity, joy, and the desire to spend time together.

Stay Humble: Always act humble: Everybody must roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty to make our big plans a reality. We are tiny! We are conscious of how big the opportunity is and how much we’ve got left to do.

Glownership: Act as one company—one team: Care first about Glovo, not your role or your department. Own your stuff, no question, but go beyond your role; help before you are asked. Everything you need to make things happen, you do it. Glow it!

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

Preferred skills:

  • Experience managing distributed services / microservices platforms
  • Experience evaluating the trade-offs for building highly available distributed systems
  • Advanced knowledge of JVM internals
  • Bonus Points:
    • Experience operating and tuning Java server applications
    • Experience with Kafka or Kinesis

Benefits:

  • A ticket to the moon sitting on the fastest rocket - an adventure filled with challenges and professional growth
  • Social benefits (such as fresh fruit every day, free lunches from our yummy partners once a week, beers on Fridays, Culture Days every 6 weeks, the best coffee machine in the world,...)
  • Private Health Insurance
  • Unlimited Glovos (zero delivery fee on your Glovo orders)
  • Attractive compensation and equity plan
  • Gym membership discounts
  • Back to School Fridays (it’s all about learning and sharing knowledge)
  • Team building activities
  • Relocation package
  • International and talented team, used to working in a fast paced and vibrant way!