Manager, Engineering

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!
The Impact You Will Make

• Lead a team in Grubhub's Onsite (Campus) group working on student experience, content and search systems and integrations to unlock new opportunities to grow the business.
• Build and design high performance, low latency and high throughput backend systems.
• Run your team's Agile ceremonies. Positively influence the planning, refinement, and execution of your team's goals in a rapid development environment.
• Raise the bar of the engineering org by thinking and implementing improvements to our engineering systems and processes.
• Work with engineering leadership to plan future architecture and backend solutions to meet our demanding high traffic requirements.
• Guide other engineers on best practices and modern technologies.
• Evaluate tools, technologies, frameworks, and vendors for the platform along with other senior team members
• Use data to drive business, product and engineering decisions.
• Work with the product, design and mobile teams to help define the user experience and user flow, bridging the gap between design and technical implementation.

What You Bring to the Table

• 5+ years experience building highly-scalable applications.
• 3+ years experience managing a team of Engineers and providing mentorship and career progression and planning in a formal setting.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Experience with Java or Python (preferred) or other object-oriented languages.
• Experience architecting, designing, and developing testable, fault tolerant, and performant software.
• AWS experience, or similar cloud based offerings.
• Automated testing experience applicable for services (junit/testing, pytest, mockito + jmeter/ gatling.io).
• Strong computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms).
• Experience building observability as part of the application and services being built. Extreme ownership of your team's deliverables.
• Interest in working for a fast paced, product oriented tech company.
• Distributed database experience with Cassandra or similar NoSQL database experience. Experience with additional datastores such as MySQL, MongoDB, Redis and/or other DB technologies preferred.
• Docker, or similar containerized solutions.
• Experienced in CI/CD best practices and tooling.
• Ability to work and communicate within and across teams and to communicate technical solutions to non-technical people.

Got any of these? Even Better

• Experience working in the consumer space
• Experience working with business teams to help pitch solutions
• Experience dealing with production runtime constraints and tradeoffs

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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