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Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Posted 19 Oct
What’s this role about? Design, build, deploy, maintain, and monitor scalable, reliable backend applications, ensuring performance, security, and availability. Evaluate platform technologies, review peer code, contribute to technical debt and feature planning, and collaborate across teams to improve the platform and customer experience.
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Company
About Grubhub At Grubhub, we champion restaurants from coast to coast. Restaurants sit at the heart of communities. It’s our mission to strengthen their roots, deepen their connections, and increase the positive impact they have on people and society. Grubhub, part of Wonder Group, delivers the best local, authentic cuisine right to diners’ doors—and new customers and billions in revenue to local businesses. Featuring over hundreds of thousands of merchants in over 4,000 cities nationwide, our innovative technology, user-friendly platforms, and streamlined delivery capabilities have made us an industry leader in the world of online food ordering. Since we opened our doors in 2004, Grubhub has been opening doors all across the country. Bakery doors in Hyde Park, jibarito joint doors in Queens, and doors of opportunity all across the country. Join our team and help us open more.
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Responsibilities
- You’ll gain expertise in your domain and build highly scalable & reliable additions to 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 evaluate tools, technologies, frameworks, and vendors for the platform along with other senior team members
- 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 to create the backlog of tech debt and features, suggesting areas for improvement and enhancement
- You’ll actively work with other team members in the domain and be a team player
Qualification
- Bachelor’s Degree in a science, programming or engineering related field
- 5+ years experience building highly-scalable consumer-facing applications (e-commerce preferred)
- Experience with Java or other object-oriented languages
- Experience architecting, designing, and developing testable, fault tolerant, and performant software with emphasis on future evolution
- Experience with complex systems composed of multiple components spread across the network
- AWS experience, or similar cloud based offerings
- Automated testing experience applicable for services (junit/testing, mockito + jmeter/ gatling.io)
- Strong fundamentals (data structures, algorithms)
- Experience developing highly-available distributed systems (4x9’s uptime etc.)
- Building observability as part of the application
- Experience modeling system resource requirements as system load changes
- Interest in working for a fast paced, product oriented tech company
- Distributed database experience with Cassandra or similar NoSQL database experience preferred
- Docker, or similar containerized solutions
- CI / CD tools experience like Gradle, Jenkins, Spinnaker, or similar technologies
- 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
- Passion for challenging the status quo, understanding new things, and solving problems in creative and unconventional ways
- A sense of accountability for developed software and ownership of upstream and downstream dependency
- New York Base Salary: $176,000 - $183,500.
- Wonder uses geographic-specific salary structures, which means the salary offered may vary depending on where the job is located. The final salary offer will take into account various factors, such as the candidate's skills, education, training, credentials, and experience.
Benefits
- The benefits applicable to this role include a competitive compensation package with equity and a 401(k). We also offer a choice of medical, dental, and vision plans, company paid short and long term disability coverage, paid time off including flexible time off for exempt employees, paid vacation for non-exempt employees, and paid sick leave in compliance with applicable law in addition to paid parental leave, discounted meals and exclusive perks across the Wonder family of brands.
- Eligibility, effective dates, and available plan options vary by employment classification and location. To learn more about benefits for this role, visit our Careers page here.
- We look forward to hearing from you! We'll contact you via email or text to schedule interviews and share information about your candidacy.
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