Manager, Engineering - Backend

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Chicago, IL
Hybrid
211K-297K Annually
Senior level
eCommerce • Food • Sales • Software
Grubhub connects millions of diners with the food they love from their favorite local restaurants.
The Role
As an Engineering Manager, you will lead a team of engineers to design and develop key features for Grubhub's platform. Your responsibilities include defining the team vision, managing the product roadmap, conducting agile ceremonies, and building a diverse and collaborative team environment. You will also ensure software architecture best practices are followed and use metrics to enhance feature performance.
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About The Opportunity
We're all about connecting hungry diners with our network of over 300,000 restaurants 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!
Why Work For Us
Grubhub is a place where authentically fun culture meets innovation and teamwork. We believe in empowering people and opening doors for new opportunities. If you're looking for a place that values strong relationships, embraces diverse ideas-all while having fun together-Grubhub is the place for you!
Grubhub is seeking a Backend Engineering Manager to join our team. You will play a key role in translating business objectives into technical plans, monitoring system performance, and driving improvements that contribute to both user satisfaction and business success. Additionally, you'll be instrumental in growing and mentoring your team, attracting top engineering talent, and ensuring that our systems remain at the forefront of industry standards.
The Impact You Will Make

  • Manage a team of software engineers, including providing guidance on their career progression, planning, and continually challenging them to raise the bar.
  • Communicate with stakeholders, product owners, other technologists, and users to create software based on an understanding of business and technical priorities.
  • Be accountable for delivery, deployment, maintenance, monitoring the performance of the application and the platform.
  • Evaluate tools, technologies, and vendors for the platform along with other senior team members.
  • Ensure that your team maintains a high bar for quality and follows established engineering and operational guidelines.
  • Facilitate your team's agile operations by overseeing all sprints and manage the team backlog.
  • Participate in future product direction, drive technology strategy and execution.
  • Create a backlog of Tech Debts/ Features, suggesting areas of improvement and ensuring short-term decisions don't build into long-term problems.


What You Bring To The Table

  • Master's or Bachelor's Degree in Science, Programming or Engineering related field
  • 7+ years experience building highly scalable consumer-facing applications (e-commerce preferred)
  • 3+ years experience managing a team of Engineers and providing mentorship and career progression and planning in a formal setting
  • Strong proficiency and experience with Java, C#, or a similar modern object-oriented language
  • Strong fundamentals of computer science (object oriented programming, foundations of data structures and algorithms, etc) to guide the team in building optimal solutions
  • Experience architecting, designing, and developing testable, fault-tolerant, and performant software
  • AWS experience, or similar cloud-based offerings
  • Experience with eventually consistent databases (Cassandra/MongoDB/CouchDB). Experience with ElasticSearch is a big plus
  • Experience with Memcache/ Redis Distributed Caching mechanisms
  • Automated testing experience applicable for services (Junit/testing, Mockito + JMeter/Gatling.io)
  • Experience developing highly-available distributed systems (5x9's uptime etc.)
  • Docker, or similar containerized solutions
  • CI / CD tools preferable Gradle, Jenkins or similar
  • Experience with stakeholder management with data-driven communication and prioritization


Grubhub is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity and encourage a workplace that is just as diverse as the customers we serve. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. If you're applying for a job in the U.S. and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and contact information. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.
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The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
10,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2004

What We Do

Grubhub is part of Just Eat Takeaway.com (LSE: JET, AMS: TKWY), and is a leading U.S. food ordering and delivery marketplace. Dedicated to connecting diners with the food they love from their favorite local restaurants, Grubhub elevates food ordering through innovative restaurant technology, easy-to-use platforms, and an improved delivery experience. Grubhub features more than 375,000 restaurant partners in over 4,000 U.S. cities.

Why Work With Us

Our teams thrive in a fast paced environment that strives to reflect the diversity of our customers and the communities we serve. We value curiosity and data-driven mindsets to empower each other to think like owners, and innovate like entrepreneurs all while maintaining a healthy work-life balance and offering opportunities for professional growth

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Grubhub Offices

Hybrid Workspace

Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

We offer a flexible working environment where we value our in-person culture, while balancing the needs of our people with the needs of the business.

Typical time on-site: Flexible
HQChicago, IL
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