Senior Backend Engineer, Kotlin - Quick Commerce

Senior Backend Engineer, Kotlin - Quick Commerce

As the world's pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in around 70 countries worldwide, powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe's largest tech platforms, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. We enable creative minds to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero.

Job Description

We're hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join the Quick Commerce Global Services team, powering Delivery Hero - based in Glovo, Barcelona.

Your Mission

In this role, you'll be part of a central team within Delivery Hero's Global Services unit, shaping solutions that serve our entire global ecosystem, and your work will drive impact across Delivery Hero's regional brands worldwide. You'll be working with cross-functional teams to build scalable solutions that enhance customer experiences and operational excellence on a global scale. It's a unique opportunity to combine Glovo's vibrant, fast-paced culture with the reach and complexity of one of the world's largest local delivery platforms.

The Journey

• Working on our next generation platform to not only provide food for our hungry customers but also other daily urgent needs like drinks, fruits, snacks but also batteries.
• You are not shying away from building reliable, scalable systems with high concurrency and are always eager to learn new languages & technologies. Your decisions will make an impact since your ideas & efforts do matter.
• Eventually you are not afraid to build global systems which are used by thousands of people and constantly drive for excellence.

Qualifications

What You Will Bring To The Ride

• Experience in the context of distributed systems and web services(RESTful, gRPC).
• Experience in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, and RESTful Services).
• 5+ years of experience in production-grade applications.
• High-level skills using Kotlin and/or Java.
• Demonstrable skills with PostgreSQL and MongoDB
• Experience in working with agile methodologies.
• Experience with commonly used observability tools for monitoring/alerting/logging/ distributed tracing, such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Datadog.
• Experience with message brokers (SNS/SQS, Kafka, or Pub/Sub).
• Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Curious, open-minded with a growth mindset, thriving on continuous feedback.
• You believe in cross-functional teams and know that responsibility does not end with deployment.
• Experience in cloud platform hosting via AWS/GCP and terraform/cloud formation.
• You are running, maintaining & deploying your own code to production.
• Being able to learn and collaborate in the code base of other backend languages (python, golang knowledge will be a plus).
• Building, maintaining & running a high-traffic system in a microservice environment with Kubernetes.

Here at Glovo, we thrive on diversity, we believe it enhances our teams, products, and culture. We know that the best ideas come from a mashup of brilliant diverse minds. This is why we are committed to providing equal opportunities to talent from all backgrounds - all genders, racial/diverse backgrounds, abilities, ages, sexual orientations and all other unique characteristics that make you YOU. We will encourage you to bring your authentic self to work, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels heard.

Feel free to note your pronouns in your application (e.g., she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).

So, ready to take the wheel and make this the ride of your life?