Engineering Manager for Bookability

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.

We're on the lookout for an experienced Engineering Manager to join our Bookability team on its ambitious mission in our Prague office (in a hybrid mode).
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Bookability is one of Groupon's strategic initiatives, aiming to elevate our offerings by allowing customers to conveniently book deal appointments directly from the Groupon interface. To achieve this, we need to integrate seamlessly with popular booking systems, making the process smooth and attractive for merchants. This is where the Bookability Integrations engineering team comes in.

We're just at the beginning and looking for someone with a builder's mindset, someone who won’t be stopped by things not going right the first, second, or even third time.

 

💚What is our mindset? 

• We see ourselves as a sports team, striving to assemble the best team with the available resources. While maintaining values like fairness, mutual support, and respect, we also focus on performance, aiming to build a top-notch organization capable of delivering excellent results quickly. Our culture is built on courage, ambition, and is strongly meritocratic, allowing the most capable individuals to grow rapidly. 

• Learn more about us on the landing page

 

🚀 Job Responsibilities:

• Map out the needs in detail and manage your own Bookability Integrations squad to cover the entire merchant-facing Bookability agenda.

• Connect new and maintain existing third-party booking engine solutions (e.g., Booksy, Mindbody) via their API to integrate with our backend services for seamless data exchange.

• Ensure flawless data connections to third parties.

• Take ownership of the data flow within our internal systems (Groupon customer-facing site, Salesforce, etc.).

• Create an easy-to-use interface and workflow for creating new deals in our internal deal creation tool using data from integrated booking systems. This tool must work across desktop, mobile web, and mobile app platforms.

• Form an operational paratrooping squad to cover the entire bookability vertical independently, including front-end and back-end development and QA.

• Collaborate closely with the Product Manager for Bookability to meet business needs and take full ownership of the engineering delivery.

• Lead the Bookability Integration Team on a daily operational level within a Scrum framework (daily stand-ups, groomings, etc.).

• Manage the team (including regular 1:1 meetings), administrative agenda, and reporting.

 

📝 What we are looking for:

• The builder gene: You should thrive in chaos but have a natural drive to bring order.

• Proven track record in an engineering leadership role, with the ability to manage your team both technically and personally.

• Strong business-driven mindset, with a focus on results.

 

🎉We’re excited about you if you have:

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

• Experience with managing high performance individuals

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

• Strong coding skills in 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, distributed cache

• Exposure to asynchronous messaging platforms like ActiveMQ, Kafka

 

📖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

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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