Manager, Software Engineering II - 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.

Our development ecosystem:

• Languages: Java, Spring, Ruby

• Frontend: Node/React JS

• MySQL/PostgreSQL

• Redis / Memcache

• ELK stack / ElasticSearch

• Wavefront, OpsGenie

• Microservices, RESTful API design

• Asynchronous messaging / pub-sub 

• Jenkins CICD, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Cloud, GCP

• GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, Asana

You’ll spend time on the following:

• You will take full ownership of the project deliveries of our global platform applications and ensure that we deliver the best outcome for our customers

• You will collaborate within the team and outside teams in the organizations to ensure that required business features, high performance and cost effective solution are implemented effectively

• Drive technical discussion and decisions within the team’s scope, participate in design and code reviews 

• Hire and develop the team members and manage their performance actively

• You will own multiple projects and teams may including other managers

• You will foster culture of collaboration, ownership and accountability

• You will evangelize the best practices for agile development practices

• You will make process improvements to ensure alignment with company values and optimize the resources

 

We’re excited about you if you have:

• BE/BTech or ME/MTech degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering from a recognised institute

• 10+ years of overall industry experience with 4 years of leadership (hands-on engineering management) role in developing and supporting web applications, micro services in distributed environment

• Experience with managing platform services, delivering projects in dynamic environment

• Experience with managing high performance individuals in different timezones

• Good communication and collaboration skills and ability to deal with ambiguity.

• Strong experience in programming languages - Java and competent in designing and building enterprise-scale applications, common frameworks, etc.

• Experience building and scaling large scale distributed systems and development experience with service-oriented architectures/microservices

• Prior AWS/GCP/Azure/Pivotal Cloud Foundry experience is a must.

• Experience with messaging systems like RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka etc.

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes desired

• Experience with both Relational(MySQL, Postgres) and Non-relational Databases(Cassandra, MongoDB) etc.

• Experience with ecommerce and/or SaaS based systems

• Experience with front-end technologies like Javascript, ReactJS, NodeJS, PreactJS etc. is a plus.

• Experience with cache like Memcache, Redis, Aerospike etc.,

• Experience and understanding of development frameworks like Spring, Play, DropWizard etc.

• Experience with big data technologies like Spark, Hadoop, Hive, HBase is a plus.

• Knowledge of software best practices, like Test-driven Development (TDD), and Continuous Integration/Delivery (CI-CD), Terraform based Infrastructure As Code (IAC), Wavefront, ELK, Splunk etc

• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Ability to work collaboratively through an agile development process that promotes constant team communication

 

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 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.

 

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.

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