Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Java)

About The Opportunity

Join Grubhub, a leading food-ordering and delivery marketplace, as a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) in Cluj, Romania. We are on a mission to connect hungry diners with our network of over 300,000 restaurants nationwide. Our 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.

Why Work For Us

Grubhub is a place where an 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!

Role Overview

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to join the Scheduled Team Order team. You will be responsible for owning and building many key features of Grubhub Corporate. We are building a best-in-class food ordering and delivery experience for our corporate customers. We obsess over the customer experience and work to reduce the number of hurdles of coordinating this for our customers feeding thousands of their people.

Responsibilities

• Gain expertise in your domain and build highly scalable & reliable additions to our platform.
• Be accountable for delivery, deployment, maintenance, and monitoring the performance of your applications and the platform as a whole.
• Evaluate tools, technologies, frameworks, and vendors for the platform along with other senior team members.
• Write performant and concise code to meet the defined standards at GrubHub, review the code of peers, and ensure security and scalability of the features you work on.
• Help to create the backlog of tech debt and features, suggesting areas for improvement and enhancement.
• Actively work with other team members in the domain and be a team player.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a science, programming, or engineering-related field.
• 5+ years of experience building highly-scalable consumer-facing applications (e-commerce preferred).
• Experience with Java or other object-oriented languages.
• Experience architecting, designing, and developing testable, fault-tolerant, and performant software with an emphasis on future evolution.
• Experience with complex systems composed of multiple components spread across the network.
• AWS experience, or similar cloud-based offerings.
• Automated testing experience applicable for services (JUnit/Testing, Mockito + JMeter/ Gatling.io).
• Strong fundamentals (data structures, algorithms).
• Experience developing highly-available distributed systems (4x9’s uptime etc.).
• Building observability as part of the application.
• Experience modeling system resource requirements as system load changes.
• Interest in working for a fast-paced, product-oriented tech company.
• Distributed database experience with Cassandra or similar NoSQL database experience preferred.
• Docker, or similar containerized solutions.
• CI/CD tools experience like Gradle, Jenkins, or similar technologies.
• Experience leading as an individual contributor, i.e., time prioritization, self-management, and working within and across teams to drive results.
• Dedication to improving the customer experience and designing systems to avoid poor customer experience during outages and guarantee the availability of services.
• Passion for challenging the status quo, understanding new things, and solving problems in creative and unconventional ways.
• A sense of accountability for developed software and ownership of upstream and downstream dependency.

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.