Senior Backend Engineer, Kotlin - Quick Commerce
Delivery HeroBarcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Posted September 11, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Glovo is the fastest-growing multi-category app in Spain, 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, operating in more than 1500 cities across 25 countries.
Job Description
We are hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join our Quick-Commerce Global Services team in Barcelona to support the Delivery Hero Group's ecosystem with unique technologies: Kotlin. In this role, you'll have the unique opportunity to combine Glovo's vibrant, fast-paced culture with the reach and complexity of the Delivery Hero Group, one of the world's largest local delivery platforms.
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.
