Glovo is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience—fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in around 65 countries worldwide. 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.

Job Description

The Budget Steering squad builds a holistic approach to budget allocation and optimization for performance marketing — from quarterly planning to monthly optimization down to daily decisions at campaign and ad-group level.

We operate in a highly complex and ambiguous environment where:

Ground truth is often unobservable (incrementality vs attribution)

Budget decisions must be made continuously, under uncertainty and with imperfect data

Every allocation change moves real spend across markets, channels and platforms

Our goal is simple to state and hard to solve: invest each euro where it generates the biggest leverage , across scenarios ranging from volume maximization to payback-based allocation.

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a cross-functional squad of engineers and data scientists , own a large-scale production service the business depends on daily, and turn ambiguous commercial questions into reliable, model-driven decision products . This role requires a strong technical foundation — in backend engineering or in data science / ML — combined with the leadership to grow people and the pragmatism to partner closely with Product and business stakeholders.

In this role you will,

Lead and grow a cross-functional squad





Lead engineers and data scientists across the full product lifecycle — from problem framing to production and adoption

Grow individuals through coaching, feedback and clear development paths, and hire to close capability gaps

Set measurable goals for the team and create the conditions for the squad to hit them

Build a culture of ownership, proactiveness and high engineering standards

Own the budgeting lifecycle end to end

Take accountability for budget allocation across every dimension and timeline — from strategic quarterly allocation to daily bid and budget changes at campaign level

Drive the development of payback-based allocation models , including CLV estimation and constrained optimization

Consolidate a fragmented tool stack into a single budgeting platform with coherent interfaces, ownership and roadmap

Balance methodological rigor with business constraints — budget caps, pacing and channel dependencies

Guide technical strategy and execution

Shape the squad's technical strategy and stay close enough to the work to be a credible partner in most technical conversations at squad and domain level

Make architecture and prioritization trade-offs explicit — effort, value, feasibility and pace

Set the bar for reliability and data quality : uptime, correctness of allocation,



and validated inputs and outputs across every source

Ensure solutions are built as decision products , not one-off analyses — tested, monitored, documented and reproducible

Partner with Product and business stakeholders

Work with Product Managers to define scope, trade-offs and timelines, and to set common, measurable goals across planning cycles

Act as an ally of Product: negotiate constructively, know when and how to say no, and compromise without losing the long-term technical direction

Reduce ambiguity by asking the right questions before committing the team to build

Navigate a complex stakeholder network spanning marketing, finance, analytics and central platform teams

Provide clear recommendations despite imperfect measurement , articulating trade-offs and confidence levels

Navigate conflicting signals (e.g., attribution vs incrementality vs MMM) and help the team decide what to trust

Translate complex modeling and system behaviour into clear narratives for non-technical audiences

Build trust in the squad's outputs over time, including when they contradict established assumptions

Qualifications

- Technical Excellence: Depth in either of the following, with hands-on experience on cross-functional products:
- Software Engineering: strong backend background, building scalable and reliable applications used in production every day

- ML / MLOps or Data Science: deep expertise across the ML lifecycle and its tooling ecosystem

Willingness and ability to ramp up on the other side quickly: the squad is cross-functional by design, and you

📌 Manager, Software Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 Delivery Hero
📍 Barcelona