Software Development Engineer III - Java Backend

Become a better developer by building things that help local businesses around the world thrive.

Groupon is an experienced 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. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking, and celebrates success. In the process, we’re positively impacting the lives of millions of customers and merchants globally. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking, and celebrates success. If you want to take more ownership of your career, then you're ready to be part of Groupon.

Groupon's API platform team is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable and efficient API solutions that power Groupon’s diverse range of services with critical business flow. work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure our APIs meet the needs of both internal and external stakeholders, providing seamless and robust integration capabilities.

As a member of the team, you'll be not only working with product and business to design and implement new features but also contributing to all aspects of an agile software development life cycle including design, architecture, coding, documentation, testing and operation. 

Our development ecosystem:

• Java, Ruby

• Dropwizard, Vertx.io

• MySQL/PostgreSQL

• Redis / Memcached

• Elasticsearch

• RESTful API design

• Asynchronous messaging / pub-sub 

• Deployment to AWS cloud infrastructure, GCP

• Docker, K8S, AWS

• GitHub, JIRA

You’ll spend time on the following:

• You will develop applications for the Groupon microservice ecosystem

• You will collaborate with teams in other organization to ensure that required business features and compliance rules are implemented effectively

• Build service artifacts, plan deployment, coordinate timeline and tasks with project management and teams

• Improve service stability by identifying critical service specific metrics, setting meaningful alerting thresholds, and automating alerting responses

• Create and maintain documentation for your projects

• Mentor junior staff

• Drive the discussion and decisions of technical topics related to the team

We’re excited about you if you have:

• BE/BTech or ME/MTech degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field

• 6+ years of industry experience

• Excellent coding skills in one or more programming languages like C++, Java, Ruby

• Must have experience with REST API based development of microservices in a distributed environment

• Solid knowledge with relational databases

• Understanding of NoSQL databases is an added advantage

• You should have experience developing and supporting web applications and supporting and troubleshooting internal and external requests/bug reports in a transactional environment

• Experience with build tools such as Ant, Ivy, Maven, Graddle

• Strong debugging skills

• Good communication and collaboration skills

We value engineers who are:

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

• 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.

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

Beware of Fraudulent Offers

We would like to bring to your notice that Groupon follows a merit-based employee recruitment practice with extensive screening steps. Groupon does not charge/accept any amount or security deposit from job seekers during the recruitment process. It was observed that there has been an increase in recruitment fraud involving scammers who post fraudulent job openings, or who contact job-seekers with fake job offers. These individuals sometimes even conduct fraudulent interviews with an attempt to obtain personal information or money from the applicants. We have also noticed that certain individuals claiming to be from the Groupon Talent Acquisition function are contacting prospective candidates pretending to represent Groupon with job offers. In case you or any candidate receives any unsolicited or fraudulent communication regarding a job offer or an interview call against payment of money, please stay alert and recognize it as a scam. We are not liable for any loss or damage incurred as a result of dealing with such entities. To prevent falling victim to the same, please visit grouponcareers.com to verify the job opening. All our genuine job openings are posted on the official Groupon careers website. 

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.

Beware of Recruitment Fraud: Groupon follows a merit-based recruitment process without charging job seekers any fees. We've noticed an increase in recruitment fraud, including fake job postings and fraudulent interviews and job offers aimed at stealing personal information or money. Be cautious of individuals falsely representing Groupon's Talent Acquisition team with fake job offers. If you encounter any suspicious job offers or interview calls demanding money, recognize these as scams. Groupon is not responsible for losses from such dealings. For legitimate job openings, always check our official careers website at grouponcareers.com.