Engineering Manager - Platform

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. Every year, +200k merchants generate over 4B€ in sales through our platform and over 20M customers get their goods delivered in minutes.

We have a vision: To give everyone easy access to anything in their cities.

And this is where your ride starts…

YOUR MISSION

The Platform Cluster provides basic cloud infrastructure like hosting, storage, databases, and advanced features such as messaging, authentication, and SDKs. Other Glovo Clusters/teams can easily build applications on top of it.

The Infrastructure Storage team in the Platform Cluster manages critical components: MySQL databases, Redis clusters, and Kafka for event streaming. We ensure highly available, reliable, and secure storage systems. Additionally, we maintain a crucial library for developers to interact with Kafka, abstracting away complexities like polling, retrying, error handling, and networking, which accelerates developer productivity.

THE JOURNEY

• Lead up to 10 engineers form different backgrounds and seniority
• Be accountable for all things in your team including the delivery of projects, quality of the implemented solutions, hiring and the performance of your team
• Work closely with the product manager of your team to prioritize the right things and ensure engineering needs are also being worked on
• Make sure your team is building things the right way and always keeping quality at the forefront of what you do
• Be the contact point for your team and ensure you shield your team from distractions while still keeping them informed of the priorities
• Lead by example and motivate your team while bringing in new ideas on how to improve their way of working
• You enjoy seeing your team members grow and helping them achieve their goals and enjoy mentoring and coaching
• You will have strong leadership skills and understand what makes engineers tick

WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE RIDE

• Demonstrated experience in leading teams and coaching/mentoring engineers
• You have delivered on complex, large scale projects
• You are capable of being hands-on when needed and can help the team in technical discussions where it makes sense
• You have the technical chops to design & architect systems that are scalable and maintainable and thrive on seeing good, high-quality deliverable
• You bring an empathetic, inclusive and curious attitude
• You care deeply about helping others achieve their goals, and become the best engineers they can be.

• You are familiar with Cloud providers and Infrastructure as code, preferably AWS and Terraform.
• You have experience operating distributed systems in production - scaling, tuning, performance and disaster recovery.
• You have knowledge about Databases.
• You have knowledge about event brokers, preferably Kinesis or Kafka, and their integration in a data driven organisation.
• You have a strong bias towards action and getting stuff done

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

Even if it seems you don't meet our musts don't let it stop you, we are all about finding the best talent out there! Skills can be learned, and embracing diversity is invaluable.

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).

Delve into our culture by taking a peek at our Instagram and check out our Linkedin and website!