Backend Engineer, Kotlin - Quick Commerce

Requirements

• Experience in distributed systems and web services (RESTful, gRPC).
• Experience in Distributed Systems Architecture (Microservices, Event-Driven, and RESTful Services).
• 2+ years of experience in production-grade applications.
• Demonstrable skills using Kotlin and/or Java.
• Demonstrable skills with PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Experience in working with agile methodologies.
• Rigor in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices.
• Curious, open-minded with a growth mindset, thriving on continuous feedback.
• Fluent English communication skills.

Nice to Have

• Building, maintaining & running a high-traffic system in a microservice environment with Kubernetes.
• Experience in cloud platform hosting via AWS/GCP and terraform/cloud formation.
• Experience with observability tools like Grafana, Prometheus, and Datadog.
• Experience with message brokers (SNS/SQS, Kafka, or Pub/Sub).
• Quick learning ability from colleagues and projects.
• Working in a culture of continuous improvement, adaptation, reflection, and growth.
• Knowledge of other backend languages (python, golang, etc).

What You'll Be Doing

• Working on the next generation platform to provide various daily urgent needs.
• Building reliable, scalable systems with high concurrency and learning new languages & technologies.
• Building global systems used by thousands of people and driving for excellence.
• Building efficient solutions for new features with a bleeding edge technical stack (ES6, Typescript, React, Webpack).

Perks and Benefits

• Monthly Glovo credits.
• Discounted gym memberships.
• Extra time off, work from home flexibility, and work from anywhere option.
• Enhanced parental leave and office-based nursery.
• Online therapy and wellbeing benefits.