Senior Software Engineer

GrubHub•Chicago, IL

45d

About The Position

Grubhub, part of Wonder, is all about connecting hungry diners with our network of over 375,000 merchants nationwide. Innovative technology, user-friendly platforms and streamlined delivery capabilities set us apart and make us an industry leader in the world of online food ordering. When you join our team, you become part of a community that works together to innovate, solve problems, grow, work hard and have a ton of fun in the process! About the Team: The Checkout Platform team consists of backend engineers that own critical core domain services that manage the cart lifecycle, tax calculation and checkout for all Grubhub orders. The Impact You Will Make: You'll gain expertise in the Checkout Platform domain and build and maintain highly scalable & reliable features and services on our platform You'll be accountable for delivery, deployment, maintenance, and monitoring the performance of your applications and the platform as a whole You'll write performant and concise code to meet the defined standards here at Grubhub, review the code of peers, and ensure security and scalability of the features you work on You'll help define the backlog of tech debt and features, suggesting areas for improvement and enhancement You'll actively work with other team members and mentor junior engineers Collaborate with Product Managers and engineers from other teams to enhance functionality and plan project work You'll evaluate tools, technologies, frameworks, and vendors for the platform along with other senior team members

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in a science, programming or engineering related field
5+ years experience building highly-scalable consumer-facing applications
Experience with Java or other object-oriented languages
Experience architecting, designing, and developing testable, fault tolerant, and performant software with emphasis on future evolution
Interest in working for a fast paced, product oriented tech company
Experience with complex systems composed of multiple components spread across the network
Strong programming fundamentals (data structures, algorithms)
Distributed database experience with Cassandra or similar NoSQL database experience preferred
Experience leading as an individual contributor, i.e. time prioritization, self-management, and working within and across teams to drive results
Dedication to improving the customer experience and designing systems to avoid poor customer experience during outages and guarantee the availability of services
A sense of accountability for developed software and ownership of upstream and downstream dependencies
AWS experience, or similar cloud based offerings
Experience developing highly-available distributed systems (4x9's uptime etc.)
Automated testing experience applicable for services (junit/testing, mockito + jmeter/ gatling.io)
Building observability as part of the application

Nice To Haves

Experience modeling system resource requirements as system load changes
Experience with Docker or similar containerized solutions
CI / CD tools experience like Gradle, Jenkins, Spinnaker, or similar technologies
Passion for challenging the status quo, understanding new things, and solving problems in creative and unconventional ways

Responsibilities

gain expertise in the Checkout Platform domain and build and maintain highly scalable & reliable features and services on our platform
be accountable for delivery, deployment, maintenance, and monitoring the performance of your applications and the platform as a whole
write performant and concise code to meet the defined standards here at Grubhub, review the code of peers, and ensure security and scalability of the features you work on
help define the backlog of tech debt and features, suggesting areas for improvement and enhancement
actively work with other team members and mentor junior engineers
collaborate with Product Managers and engineers from other teams to enhance functionality and plan project work
evaluate tools, technologies, frameworks, and vendors for the platform along with other senior team members

Benefits

PTO. Grubhub employees enjoy a generous amount of time to recharge.
Health and Wellness. Excellent medical, dental and vision benefits, 401k, employee network groups and paid parental leave are just a few of our programs to support your overall well-being.
Free Meals. Our employees get a weekly Grubhub credit to enjoy.
Social Impact. At Grubhub we believe in giving back through programs like the Grubhub Community Fund. Employees are also given paid time off each year to support the causes that are important to them.

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