Software Development Engineer IV - 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.

Become a better developer by building things that help local businesses around the world thrive  

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:

Groupon’s Pricing and Promotions ​ empowers customers & merchants with software that gets the right customer in the door at the right time and price. We create products and services to build great discounting, promotional, and pricing experiences for customers to customize and book inventories at great discounts.

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)
• GitHub, JIRA, Confluence

You’ll spend time on the following:

• You will take ownership of the technical aspects of our global technology infrastructure, ensuring that the platform is being used to its fullest potential through designing and building applications around our customer’s needs

• You will review and monitor current engineering work, as well as previously constructed applications, to ensure the software is running as smoothly as possible

• Work directly with our internal product teams to ensure that our technology infrastructure is seamlessly and effectively integrated with our third-party software, and conceive and build the necessary applications to make this happen. 

• Drive technical design & architecture for products & services owned.

• Design, implement, test, maintain, and own high-performance web services.

• Rapidly iterate to add new functionality, and solve complex problems with simple, intuitive, and customer-focused solutions while shipping quality applications.

• Apply experience to incrementally develop software development processes and infrastructure that enable us to measure and improve the performance output of systems, products, features, and services.

We’re excited about you if you have:

• 9+ years of industry experience

• Solid foundational Computer Science knowledge (e.g. data structures, algorithms, testing practices)

• Expertise in Java, Python, SQL, JavaScript, System Design

• Knowledge of Cloud Technologies (AWS, GCP)

• Must demonstrate very strong coding ability

• Previous experience working in collaborative technical teams (e.g. class projects, hackathons, previous work experience, open source projects)

• Ability to apply creative problem-solving skills

• You have a strong desire to learn and grow

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 is clean, tested, and 'just works'
• Team players: You believe that more can be achieved together. You listen to feedback and also 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.