Senior Backend Engineer, Kotlin - Quick Commerce
Delivery HeroBarcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Posted September 22, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Glovo is a multi-category app that connects millions of users with businesses, and couriers, offering on-demand services from over 170,000 local restaurants, grocers and supermarkets, and high street retail stores.
Job Description
As part of the Delivery Hero Group, Glovo is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join their Quick-Commerce Global Services team in Barcelona to support the Delivery Hero Group's ecosystem with unique technologies: Kotlin. The role involves building scalable solutions that support the entire global ecosystem of the Group.
Requirements
- 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
Benefits
- Monthly Glovo credits to satisfy your cravings
- Discounted gym memberships to keep you energized
- Extra time off, 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, and office-based nursery
- Online therapy and wellbeing benefits to ensure your mental well-being