Engineering Manager, Backend – QuickCommerce (They/She/He)

As the world’s leading local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide, powered by tech but driven by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, we enable ambitious talent 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.

Glovo:

Not your usual app. We are the fastest-growing multi-category app connecting millions of users with businesses, and couriers, offering on-demand services from more than 170,000 local restaurants, grocers and supermarkets, and high street retail stores. We operate in more than 1500 cities across 25 countries.

We are on the lookout for an Engineering Manager, Backend  – QuickCommerce to join the QuickCommerce team at Glovo, Barcelona on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences.

This is a central role with global impact that requires a unique blend of business and technical acumen as you will work with our various regional brands to build a configurable tracking experience that can be rolled out world wide. You will work closely with important stakeholders in the company to understand the engineering challenges and the issues they face, and to conceptualize innovative solutions for the broader Delivery Hero. You will be responsible for the product that helps our customers track their orders and have a direct impact on the delivery experience of users around the world.

• You will work on our next-generation platform to not only provide groceries for our hungry customers but also other daily urgent needs like drinks, fruits, snacks but also batteries.
• You will lead a team to design, develop, test, and deploy scalable services.
• You will collaborate closely with product managers, engineering leaders, and leadership across Q-Commerce.
• You will hire and develop engineers, with a deep understanding of agile software development methodologies
• You will be managing a cross-functional  team with backend, frontend and mobile profiles.
• You are not shying away from building reliable, scalable systems with high concurrency and are always eager to learn and implement 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.
• You will work in a goal-driven environment.

• 2 years of cross-functional team management experience with backend, frontend, and test engineers.
• You have a T profile with in-depth experience in at least one backend language, but able to understand the technical complexity of frontend, infrastructure, mobile & QA. If needed you can land on a new project, learn the underline technologies and understand the overall technical components.
• 3  years of experience in applications infrastructure management and operations.
• Experience in working agile methodologies.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Deep understanding of service-oriented and microservices architectural patterns, troubleshooting methods, and best practices.
• You are a pragmatic manager who understands what is needed to get things done in a collaborative manner.
• You believe in cross-functional teams and know that responsibility does not end with deployment.
• Fluent English communication skills.

We believe driven talent deserves:

• 🌟 An enticing equity plan *if applicable
• 💪 Top-notch private health insurance to keep you at your peak.
• 🍔 Monthly Glovo credits so you can test new features in our beta app (and to satisfy your cravings!)
• 💳 Discounts on transportation, food, and even kindergarten expenses or office-based nursery.
• 🏊 Discounted gym memberships to keep you energized.
• 🏖️ The freedom to work from home two days a week, and the opportunity to work from anywhere for up to three weeks a year. .
• 👪 Enhanced parental leave (*if applicable)
• 🧠 Online therapy and wellbeing benefits

We’ll deliver a non-vanilla culture built on talent, where we work to amplify the impact on millions of people, paving the way forward together.

At Glovo, we truly value diversity for the positive impact it brings to our teams, products, and culture. We’re dedicated to providing equal opportunities for talent from all backgrounds. 

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

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