Staff Android Engineer, Tech Foundation, Core Data

Job Description

We are on the lookout for a Staff Engineer, Android - (Tracking & Experimentation Mobile SDK) to join the Tech Foundations team at Glovo, Barcelona on our journey to always deliver amazing experiences.

In our Tech Foundations team, you’ll tackle high-impact challenges at the core of our mobile applications. Your work will directly empower product and engineering teams across Delivery Hero to build, experiment, and analyze features more efficiently. Each contribution you make will enable faster, more data-driven innovation, ultimately improving the experience for our end customers, riders and merchants across the globe.

The Tech Foundations team owns the essential SDKs that provide the foundation for A/B testing, feature flagging, real-time tracking, and dynamic configuration management.

In This Role You Will

• Lead architectural design of our mobile SDKs from the ground up, ensuring they are robust and scalable.
• Act as a true expert in your field, with a deep understanding of mobile performance, low-level debugging, and OS behaviors.
• Mentor your peers by sharing knowledge and raising the collective expertise of the team in best practices and system design.
• Balance hands-on execution with leadership, splitting your time between coding, design, and architecture to have the greatest impact and solve the team's most challenging technical problems.
• Be a technical role model, setting high standards for engineering excellence, performance, and scalability through your work and mentorship.
• Serve as the go-to expert for internal and external teams, educating them on how to best use our SDKs.
• Drive and champion technological improvements by helping to define the future vision and strategy of our solutions.
  
  

Qualifications

• Technical Expertise: You have 8+ years of professional experience in mobile software development, with deep proficiency in Kotlin. You possess a profound understanding of mobile performance optimization and debugging, with a proven ability to perform low-level OS diagnostics and deliver high-quality, impactful code.
• Architectural & Design Skills: You have extensive experience designing, building, and maintaining robust SDKs for large-scale, consumer-facing products. You are passionate about architecting simple, elegant solutions to complex problems and writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Leadership & Collaboration: You have a proven ability to act as a mentor and technical leader, guiding and elevating the skills of other engineers. You thrive in a cross-functional environment and can effectively educate and collaborate with teams outside of your own.
• Scale & Impact: You have experience working on products at a massive scale (millions of users), tackling challenges that require innovative and highly performant solutions.
  
  

Nice to have

• Prior experience with iOS (Swift) or a proven ability to think cross-platform.
• Experience with Flutter/Native (Kotlin) integration.
• A track record of public speaking at conferences or contributing to open-source projects, demonstrating thought leadership in the mobile community.
  
  

Additional Information

Individuals representing diverse profiles, and abilities, encompassing various genders, ethnicities, and backgrounds, are less likely to apply for this role if they do not possess solid experience in 100% of these areas. Even if it seems you don't meet our musts don't let it stop you, we are all about finding the best talent out there! Skills can be learned, and embracing diversity is invaluable.

We Believe Driven Talent Deserves

• 🍔 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.
  
  

Here at Glovo, we thrive on diversity, we believe it enhances our teams, products, and culture. We know that the best ideas come from a mashup of brilliant diverse minds. This is why we are committed to providing equal opportunities to talent from all backgrounds - all genders, racial/diverse backgrounds, abilities, ages, sexual orientations and all other unique characteristics that make you YOU. We will encourage you to bring your authentic self to work, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels heard.

Feel free to note your pronouns in your application (e.g., she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).

So, ready to take the wheel and make this the ride of your life?

Delve into our culture by taking a peek at our Instagram and check out our Linkedin and website!

Here at Glovo, we thrive on diversity, we believe it enhances our teams, products, and culture. We know that the best ideas come from a mashup of brilliant diverse minds. This is why we are committed to providing equal opportunities to talent from all backgrounds – all genders, racial/diverse backgrounds, abilities, ages, sexual orientations and all other unique characteristics that make you YOU. We will encourage you to bring your authentic self to work, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels heard.

Feel free to note your pronouns in your application (e.g., she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).

So, ready to take the wheel and make this the ride of your life?

Delve into our culture by taking a peek at our Instagram and check out our Linkedin and website!