Backend Engineer, Kotlin - Quick Commerce

Requirements

• Experience in the context of 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.
• Belief in cross-functional teams and understanding that responsibility extends beyond deployment.
• Running, maintaining & deploying your own code to production.
• Fluent English communication skills.

Nice to Haves

• 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).
• Ability to quickly learn from colleagues and projects.
• Work 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 urgent needs in addition to food.
• Building reliable, scalable systems with high concurrency and learning new languages & technologies.
• Building global systems used by thousands of people and driving for excellence.

Perks and Benefits

• Monthly Glovo credits for food cravings.
• Discounted gym memberships.
• Extra time off, the flexibility to work remotely two days a week, and the opportunity for up to three weeks of remote work per year.
• Enhanced parental leave and office-based nursery.
• Online therapy and wellbeing benefits for mental well-being.