Engineering Manager II - Backend Core Apps

Groupon is an experiences marketplace that brings people more ways to get the most out of their city or wherever they may be. By enabling real-time mobile commerce across local businesses, live events, and travel destinations, Groupon helps people find and discover experiences––big and small, new and familiar––that make for a full, fun, and rewarding life. Groupon helps local businesses grow and strengthen customer relationships––resulting in strong, vibrant communities. With employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking, and celebrates success. Our culture encourages employees to embrace change, adapt to new circumstances, and find creative solutions to the challenges we face. Does that sound like a great way to grow your career? Let’s get into the details:

Come join the Groupon Core Applications team where we pride ourselves in being a Top Engineering Developmental Destination to grow and develop yourself. You’ll enjoy scope, ownership, and impact only limited by your own capability.

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

You’ll spend time on the following:

• You will take full ownership of the project deliveries of our global platform applications and ensure that we deliver the best outcome for our customers

• You will collaborate within the team and outside teams in the organizations to ensure that required business features, high performance and cost effective solution are implemented effectively

• Drive technical discussion and decisions within the team’s scope, participate in design and code reviews 

• Hire and develop the team members and manage their performance actively

• You will own multiple projects and teams may including other managers

• You will foster culture of collaboration, ownership and accountability

• You will evangelize the best practices for agile development practices

• You will make process improvements to ensure alignment with company values and optimize the resources

We’re excited about you if you have:

• BE/BTech or ME/MTech degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering from a recognised institute

• 10+ years of overall industry experience with 4 years of leadership (management) role in developing and supporting web applications, micro services in distributed environment

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

• Experience with managing high performance individuals in different timezones

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

• Strong coding skills in one or more object oriented programming languages like Java or C++

• 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

We value leaders who are:

• Customer-focused: We believe that doing what’s right for the customer is ultimately what will drive our business forward.

• Owners: Engineers/Leaders at Groupon know how to positively impact the business.

• Obsessed with Quality: Your Production code Just Works & scales linearly

• Team players. You believe that more can be achieved together. You listen to feedback and also provide supportive feedback to help others grow/improve.

• Fast learners: We are willing to disrupt our existing business to trial new products and solutions. You love learning how to use new technologies and then rapidly apply them to new problems.

• Pragmatic: We do things quickly to learn what our customers desire. You know when it’s appropriate to take shortcuts that don’t sacrifice quality or maintainability.

Groupon’s purpose is to build strong communities through thriving small businesses. To learn more about the world’s largest local ecommerce 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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