Senior Python Developer - Courier Cluster

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About Glovo:

Glovo is a Barcelona-based startup and the fastest-growing delivery player in Europe, Western Asia, and Africa. With food at the core of the business, Glovo delivers any product within your city at any time of day. We currently deliver over +100M annual orders and operate in +500 cities worldwide.

 

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:

Our mission is to provide a “Best-in-Class” ordering experience that just works!

The 3PL & Innovation team in our Courier Cluster builds a platform for our third-party logistic users (3PL) that empowers them to manage their own fleet. This platform already supports 30% of all couriers globally (15K approx) and aims to reach more than 60% by 2022.

Our team's mission is being the partner of choice for fleet providers, while fostering competition among them to achieve operational excellence. We solve exciting product and technical challenges that are unique to the scale we operate at.

We work in a small, focused and autonomous product team, make data driven decisions, and ship the code to production instantly through our continuous delivery pipeline. As a team we have full ownership over our systems - including infrastructure decisions, operability, ensuring quality through automated tests and running A/B tests.

 

Come be a part of our fast growing team!

 

Be a part of a team where you will:

  • Work on challenging problems and constantly improve the usability of our applications.
  • 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.
  • Participate in high-level technical decisions.
  • Take part in product-experimentation. 

 

What You’ll Do:

  • Building a strong microservice in Python
  • Make changes in our Monolith application coded in Java to be able to correctly connect our microservice
  • Listen from our microservice to main events generated in Glovo Infrastructure
  • Mentor the team composed by less experienced Software Engineers
  • Define architecture & design of the next features development for the 3PL platform
  • Build scalable feature
  • Develop observability of our system

 

You have:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
  • Strong Python programming skills with preferably 5+ years of professional experience in building complex data-intensive applications
  • Java programming skills with preferably 2+ years of professional experience in building complex data-intensive applications
  • Familiarity with or interest in learning any of the following: Kotlin, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, AWS, Terraform
  • Commitment to deliver high quality well-tested software employing modern engineering approaches and architectural styles, including microservices, stream processing and event-driven architecture
  • Proven ability to build backend systems with a solid foundation in fault-tolerant and resilient distributed systems
  • A strong sense of ownership and deep care about the quality of the engineering done on the team
  • Great communication skills (English)

 

Experience our Glovo Life benefits:

  • Enticing Phantom Shares plan
  • Attractive Relocation package (if applicable ;))
  • 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!

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 September 30, 2019, we’re 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/