Senior Software Engineer- Backend

Why Work For Us

Grubhub, part of Wonder Group Inc, 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!

The Impact You Will Make:

• Build and design high performance, low latency and high throughput BE systems.
• 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 BE solutions to meet our demanding high traffic requirements.
• Guide other engineers on best practices and modern technologies.
• 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.

Duties will include, but are not limited to:

• Writing tested, performant software solutions.
• Working both solo and in squads to design, plan, implement, integrate and validate solutions to real problems.
• Acting as a mentor to junior members of the engineering team, and showing leadership in technical fields
• Cross collaboration within the different product, design and engineering teams. Partnering up with 3rd party vendors to introduce new solutions our users will enjoy.
• Owning your code and product features from conception to deployment and beyond.
• Supporting what you build - our engineers keep close to their deliverables and provide production support by participating in our on-call rotation.

What You Bring to the Table:

• 5+ years of experience building highly-scalable BE systems for interactive mobile and web applications.
• Expertise in either Java or Python.
• Familiarity with the other language is a bonus.
• Experienced with building and managing complex distributed microservices in the cloud (AWS preferred or GCP/Azure/Etc).
• Experienced with large scale datastores such as Cassandra, Redis and modern RDBMS/NoSQL DBs such as MySQL, PostgreSQL & MongoDB is a plus.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, New Relic/Datadog, Splunk and modern CI/CD is a plus.
• Experience of advocating for the adoption of strong software architecture, development of best practices, and new technologies.
• Demonstrated ability in guiding other engineers in varying levels to accomplish large projects