Engineering Manager (Backend)

As a Backend Engineering Manager @Grubhub, you will manage an engineering team of 5 engineers that’s responsible for the student experience within Grubhub. You (and your team!) will design and build scalable backend solutions and infrastructure for our ordering experience and help create experiments to validate new products. You will work closely with Senior and Staff+ engineers globally (Israel, US and Europe) and build low latency, high availability and throughput systems to deliver world class user experiences.

We are looking for an experienced Backend Engineering Manager that can build a product end to end, enjoys working with product teams, understands their needs and has an impact on the design and execution of products.

If you want to solve interesting engineering problems and build high scale systems, Grubhub is the perfect place for you. The Campus business is a rapidly growing area, perfect for someone who enjoys connecting strategy with execution.

About the team

The GH Onsite group creates innovative food delivery B2B2C products for Campuses, Hotels, Hospital and corporate headquarters.

We work closely with Backend, Devops, Mobile and Web dev teams to build end to end high scalability solutions for millions of users across the US. Our products include food delivery & takeaway products for Hotels, Colleges, Hospitals, Corporate Headquarters and other locations.

The Impact You Will Make:

• Lead a team in Grubhub’s Onsite (Campus) group working on student experience, content and search systems and integrations to unlock new opportunities to grow the business.
• Build and design high performance, low latency and high throughput backend systems.
• Run your team's Agile ceremonies. Positively influence the planning, refinement, and execution of your team's goals in a rapid development environment.
• Raise the bar of the engineering org by thinking and implementing improvements to our engineering systems and processes.
• Work with engineering leadership to plan future architecture and backend solutions to meet our demanding high traffic requirements.
• Guide other engineers on best practices and modern technologies.
• Evaluate tools, technologies, frameworks, and vendors for the platform along with other senior team members
• Use data to drive business, product and engineering decisions.
• Work with the product, design and mobile teams to help define the user experience and user flow, bridging the gap between design and technical implementation.

What You Bring To the Table:

• 3+ years experience managing a team of Engineers and providing mentorship and career progression and planning in a formal setting.
• Strong experience with Java or Python (preferred) or other object-oriented languages.
• 5+ years experience building highly-scalable applications.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Experience architecting, designing, and developing testable, fault tolerant, and performant software.
• AWS experience, or similar cloud based offerings.
• Automated testing experience applicable for services (junit/testing, pytest, mockito + jmeter/ gatling.io).
• Strong computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms).
• Experience building observability as part of the application and services being built. Extreme ownership of your team’s deliverables.
• Interest in working for a fast paced, product oriented tech company.
• Distributed database experience with Cassandra or similar NoSQL database experience. Experience with additional datastores such as MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and/or other DB technologies preferred.
• Docker, or similar containerized solutions.
• Experienced in CI/CD best practices and tooling.
• Ability to work and communicate within and across teams and to communicate technical solutions to non-technical people.

Got any of these? Even Better:

• Experience working in the consumer space
• Experience working with business teams to help pitch solutions
• Experience dealing with production runtime constraints and tradeoffs

Benefits & Perks:

• Hybrid in office 2 days per week
• 20 day of paid time off per year
• Private health insurance at company's expense
• Food stiped for days in office