Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Java, AWS)

About The Opportunity

Join Grubhub, a leading online and mobile food-ordering and delivery marketplace, as a Senior Software Engineer - Backend. We are dedicated to connecting diners with their favorite local restaurants through innovative technology and user-friendly platforms. As part of our team, you will work on a wide range of micro-services that power our Care policy, automation, search functionality, and support agents.

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 and embraces diverse ideas, Grubhub is the place for you!

About The Team

This team owns the products and services used to provide world-class customer service. We support all of Grubhub’s customers, including diners, drivers, and restaurants. The opportunities to learn, grow, and impact the entire Grubhub product offerings are endless as this engineering team supports nearly every facet of the Grubhub marketplace.

The Impact You Will Make

• 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.

What You Bring to the Table

• Bachelor’s Degree in a science, programming, or engineering-related field.
• 2+ years 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, Spinnaker, 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.