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Engineering Manager, Backend – QuickCommerce at Glovo

GlovoNigeria Networking and Tech Support
Full Time

Glovo - We are a Barcelona-based startup and the fastest-growing delivery player in Europe, Hispanic America, and Africa. With food at the core of the business, Glovo delivers any product within your city at any time of day. Our vision and ambition are not only to make everything immediately available in your city but it is also to offer our employees the job of their lives. A job where you'll be challenged and have the most fun working in through tech-enabled experience.

We are on the lookout for an Engineering Manager, Backend  – QuickCommerce to join the QuickCommerce team at Glovo, Barcelona on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences.

This is a central role with global impact that requires a unique blend of business and technical acumen as you will work with our various regional brands to build a configurable tracking experience that can be rolled out world wide. You will work closely with important stakeholders in the company to understand the engineering challenges and the issues they face, and to conceptualize innovative solutions for the broader Delivery Hero. You will be responsible for the product that helps our customers track their orders and have a direct impact on the delivery experience of users around the world.

  • You will work on our next-generation platform to not only provide groceries for our hungry customers but also other daily urgent needs like drinks, fruits, snacks but also batteries.
  • You will lead a team to design, develop, test, and deploy scalable services.
  • You will collaborate closely with product managers, engineering leaders, and leadership across Q-Commerce.
  • You will hire and develop engineers, with a deep understanding of agile software development methodologies
  • You will be managing a cross-functional  team with backend, frontend and mobile profiles.
  • You are not shying away from building reliable, scalable systems with high concurrency and are always eager to learn and implement new languages & technologies. Your decisions will make an impact since your ideas & efforts do matter.
  • Eventually, you are not afraid to build global systems which are used by thousands of people and constantly drive for excellence.
  • You will work in a goal-driven environment.

Qualifications

  • 2 years of cross-functional team management experience with backend, frontend, and test engineers.
  • You have a T profile with in-depth experience in at least one backend language, but able to understand the technical complexity of frontend, infrastructure, mobile & QA. If needed you can land on a new project, learn the underline technologies and understand the overall technical components.
  • 3  years of experience in applications infrastructure management and operations.
  • Experience in working agile methodologies.
  • Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
  • Deep understanding of service-oriented and microservices architectural patterns, troubleshooting methods, and best practices.
  • You are a pragmatic manager who understands what is needed to get things done in a collaborative manner.
  • You believe in cross-functional teams and know that responsibility does not end with deployment.
  • Fluent English communication skills.

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