Software Development Engineer III - Java Backend

Groupon is a marketplace where customers discover new experiences and services everyday and local businesses thrive. To date we have worked with over a million merchant partners worldwide, connecting over 16 million customers with deals across various categories. In a world often dominated by e-commerce giants, we stand out as one of the few platforms uniquely committed to helping local businesses succeed on a performance basis.

Groupon is on a radical journey to transform our business with relentless pursuit of results. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. The impact here can be immediate due to our scale and the speed of our transformation. We're a "best of both worlds" kind of company. We're big enough to have the resources and scale, but small enough that a single person has a surprising amount of autonomy and can make a meaningful impact.

Are you a passionate, energetic technology enthusiast eager to work at a rapid pace with the flexibility to work across a broad tech stack?
Groupon is an experiences marketplace that brings people more ways to get the most out of their city or wherever they may be. By enabling real-time mobile commerce across local businesses, live events, and travel destinations, Groupon helps people find and discover experiences––big and small, new and familiar––that make for a full, fun, and rewarding life. Groupon helps local businesses grow and strengthen customer relationships––resulting in strong, vibrant communities. With employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking, and celebrates success. Our culture encourages employees to embrace change, adapt to new circumstances, and find creative solutions to the challenges we face. Does that sound like a great way to grow your career? Let’s get into the details.

This is for the Merchant Engineering team, which own the all engineering platform to manage the complete lifecycle of Merchant at Groupon. We pride ourselves in being a Top Engineering Developmental Destination, you’ll enjoy scope, ownership, and impact you will make.

Our development ecosystem:

• Languages: Java, J2EE
• MySQL/PostgreSQL
• Redis / Memcache
• ELK stack / ElasticSearch
• RESTful API design
• Asynchronous messaging / Pub-Sub frameworks
• Jenkins CICD, Docker, K8S, AWS cloud, Wavefront (metrics), GCP
• GitHub, JIRA, Confluence
   

You’ll spend time on the following:

• You will take full ownership of the technical aspects of our global Merchant Platforms & related infrastructure, ensuring that the platform is being used to its fullest potential through designing and building applications around our Merchant's needs.
• You will Design/Develop/Migrate/Maintain a myriad of Merchant backend applications and services for AWS Cloud & Kubernetes environment.
• You will collaborate within the team and outside teams in the organisations to ensure that required business features, high performance and cost-effective solution are implemented effectively.
• Build service artefacts, estimate and plan for deployment, coordinate timeline and tasks with project management and teams.
• Improve service stability and performance by identifying critical service specific metrics, setting meaningful alerting thresholds, and automating alerting responses.
• Drive the discussion and decisions on technical topics related to the team’s scope.
   

We’re excited about you if you have:

• BE/BTech or ME/MTech degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering from a recognised institute
• 6+ years of industry experience in developing and supporting web applications, micro services and troubleshooting internal and external requests / bug reports in distributed environment.
• Strong coding skills in object-oriented programming languages like Java.
• Strong problem solving, debugging skills, data structure and algorithms fundamentals.
• Must have experience with REST API based development of micro services, relational databases (MySQL or Postgres), ORMs
• Exposure to asynchronous messaging platforms like ActiveMQ, Kafka is plus.
• Good communication and collaboration skills and ability to deal with ambiguity.
   

We value engineers who are:

• Customer-focused: We believe that doing what’s right for the customer is ultimately what will drive our business forward.
• Obsessed with Quality: Your Production code just works & scales linearly.
• Team players. You believe that more can be achieved together. You listen to feedback and provide supportive feedback to help others grow/improve.
• Fast learners: We are willing to disrupt our existing business to trial new products and solutions. You love learning how to use new technologies and then rapidly apply them to new problems.
• Pragmatic: We do things quickly to learn what our customers desire. You know when it’s appropriate to take shortcuts that don’t sacrifice quality or maintainability.
• Owners: Engineers at Groupon know how to positively impact the business.

Beware of Fraudulent Offers

Groupon’s purpose is to build strong communities through thriving small businesses. To learn more about the world’s largest local e-commerce marketplace, click here. You can also find out more about us in the latest Groupon news as well as learning about our DEI approach. If all of this sounds like something that’s a great fit for you, then click apply and join us on a mission to become the ultimate destination for local experiences and services.

Beware of Recruitment Fraud: Groupon follows a merit-based recruitment process without charging job seekers any fees. We've noticed an increase in recruitment fraud, including fake job postings and fraudulent interviews and job offers aimed at stealing personal information or money. Be cautious of individuals falsely representing Groupon's Talent Acquisition team with fake job offers. If you encounter any suspicious job offers or interview calls demanding money, recognize these as scams. Groupon is not responsible for losses from such dealings. For legitimate job openings (and a sneak peek into life at Groupon), always check our official career website at grouponcareers.com.