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.