Engineering Manager, Performance Marketing Budgeting

About the role

Glovo, part of the Delivery Hero Group, is looking for an Engineering Manager in Barcelona to lead a cross-functional squad of engineers and data scientists. The squad owns a large-scale production service that the business depends on daily and turns ambiguous commercial questions into reliable, model-driven decision products. The role combines a strong technical foundation in backend engineering or data science / ML with the leadership needed to grow people and partner closely with Product and business stakeholders.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and grow a cross-functional squad: guide engineers and data scientists through the full product lifecycle, coach individuals, set measurable goals and build a culture of ownership and high engineering standards.
• Own the budgeting lifecycle end to end: drive payback-based allocation models including CLV estimation and constrained optimization, and consolidate a fragmented tool stack into a single budgeting platform.
• Shape technical strategy, make architecture and prioritization trade-offs explicit, and set the bar for reliability, data quality and reproducibility of decision products.
• Partner with Product Managers to define scope, trade-offs and timelines, and navigate a stakeholder network spanning marketing, finance, analytics and central platform teams.
• Help the team make decisions under uncertainty, explain trade-offs and confidence levels, and translate complex modelling into clear narratives for non-technical audiences.

Required profile

• Proven track record leading and mentoring engineers and/or data scientists, and taking accountability for a large-scale production service.
• Ability to mediate conflict and build shared understanding.
• Experience delivering scalable, reliable applications where data science modelling is at the core, with production practices such as modular design, testing, CI/CD, monitoring and version control.
• Pragmatic collaboration with Product, and experience building new solutions from scratch with measurable goals.
• Nice to have: MarTech domain knowledge (performance marketing, bidding, attribution, incrementality) and experience building bidders or budget optimization systems.

Required skills

• Backend software engineering, or deep expertise across the ML lifecycle and its tooling (MLOps or data science).
• Willingness to ramp up quickly on the other side of the divide.

What we offer

• Private health insurance and monthly company credit.
• Cobee discounts on transport, food and kindergarten, and discounted gym memberships.
• Extra time off, two days of work from home per week and up to three weeks working from anywhere per year.
• Enhanced parental leave and an office-based nursery.
• Online therapy and wellbeing benefits.