Backend Engineer II - 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

• Work with Developers to design and implement build, test and deployment infrastructure and solutions to achieve continuous delivery
• Build and maintain tools, scripts, and processes that make our development practices more efficient.
• Work with engineers to define and implement mechanisms to inject testing earlier into the software development process.
• Work with product team and engineering managers to understand how new features should be tested, and then engage with the developers to consult on these practices
• Improve the existing delivery, operation, and monitoring processes for the services at Glovo.
• Identify and drive the adoption of best practices in code health, testing, testability and maintainability. You should know about clean code and the test pyramid and champion these concepts.
• Analyze complex software systems and collaborate with others to improve the overall design, testability and quality.
• Use metrics & data to understand the build, test and deployment practices and proactively suggest improvements.
• Strive for the fastest feedback possible. Quick feedback to the developers should be a priority.
• Participate in incident management, diagnosis and mitigation to identify gaps in testing strategies
• Monitor and optimize the performance of deployments

WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE RIDE

• Good communication and willingness to engage in group problem solving with your teammates

Experience or strong interest in:

• Distributed systems
• Java / Kotlin / Go
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• MySQL
• Kafka
• Microservices architecture
• Monitoring/observability solutions such as Datadog, Kibana, New Relic

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!