Junior Software Engineer - Global Feature Store (Machine Learning Platform)

Company Description

Delivery Hero:

As the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in over 70+ countries worldwide, powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. We enable creative minds to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero.

Glovo:

Not your usual app. We are the fastest-growing multi-category app 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. We operate in more than 1500 cities across 25 countries. 

Job Description

We are on the lookout for a motivated and eager-to-learn Junior Software Engineer to join the Global Feature Store team at Glovo

The Feature Store is a key component of Delivery Hero’s Machine Learning stack, allowing Data Scientists easy and consistent access to model features at training and serving time and reducing the duplication of feature engineering efforts across teams. Our Feature Store also powers backend engineering use cases which require low latency access to data in our Data Lake, vastly reducing development time of these projects and allowing feature discoverability and reusage across the organization.

Our team is located in Barcelona, in Glovo offices, but builds and operates the Global Feature Store not only in Glovo but also the rest of the brands in Delivery Hero, our parent company. You will be supported and mentored by a group of senior engineers and your solutions will be used across different use cases, ranging from logistics, fraud detection, ranking, etc. in all the markets Delivery Hero and Glovo operate in. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn and grow in a dynamic and innovative environment.

THE JOURNEY

As a Junior Software Engineer, you will be supported and guided by senior team members as you contribute to the following:

• Assisting in designing and implementing scalable, robust and innovative solutions for one of Delivery Hero’s busiest and most data-intensive services, where your work will shape the future of high-traffic platforms. 

• Contributing to our product development roadmap and assisting in project execution under guidance. 

• Participating in monitoring and maintaining system health with support from senior engineers

• Developing software using modern engineering approaches and agile principles.

• Making our technology and our team scale as the business grows.

• Owning your deliverables from start to finish and delivering high-quality solutions.

Qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science or relevant experience.

• Understanding of topics like object-oriented programming concepts, software architecture, concurrency. 

• Knowledge of relational databases, and other approaches to data management.

• Interest in data-intensive application development.

• Familiarity with the Machine Learning lifecycle.

• Extensive familiarity with at least one high-level language, including Java, Kotlin, Python, etc.

• Basic understanding of diagnosing and troubleshooting software issues.

• Analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Vivid interest in at least one area outside of coding (architecture, algorithms, optimization, automation, scalability, etc.)

• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

Nice to have: 

• Experience in fast-growing tech companies and scaleups.

• Past work experience in the field of data engineering, data science or streaming analytics.

• Personal coding projects or contributions to open-source projects.

• A strong growth mindset and enthusiasm for learning specific technologies used by the team.

Additional Information

We believe driven talent deserves:

• 🌟 An enticing equity plan *if applicable 

• 💪 Top-notch private health insurance to keep you at your peak.

• 🍔 Monthly Glovo credits so you can test new features in our beta app (and to satisfy your cravings!) 

• 💳 Discounts on transportation, food, and even kindergarten expenses or office-based nursery.

• 🏊 Discounted gym memberships to keep you energized.

• 🏖️ 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 (*if applicable) 

• 🧠 Online therapy and wellbeing benefits 

We’ll deliver a non-vanilla culture built on talent, where we work to amplify the impact on millions of people, paving the way forward together. 

At Glovo, we truly value diversity for the positive impact it brings to our teams, products, and culture. We're dedicated to providing equal opportunities for talent from all backgrounds. 

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

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We believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support to ensure a smooth interview experience—just include it in your application. You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.