Engineering Manager Travel - Groupon

Grow as an Engineering manager by building things that help local businesses around the world thrive. Are you a passionate and energetic technology enthusiast eager to work at a rapid pace with the flexibility to work across our suite of technologies? Are you a problem solver; someone who enjoys debugging code, resolving issues, and creating solutions for common problems? Do you get a little obsessed with the details?

💚Groupon is an experiences 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.

We're looking for great technology developers to work on the Groupon platform to improve performance and make our customers’ and small business’ lives easier and happier. We work in small, self-managing, collaborative and agile teams to implement stuff quickly.

We're a "best of both worlds" kind of company. We're big enough to have resources and scale, but small enough that a single person has a surprising amount of autonomy and can make a meaningful impact. We're curious, fun, a little intense, and kind of obsessed with helping local businesses thrive. Does that sound like a great way to grow your career? Let's get into the details:

🚀As an Engineering Manager for the Travel Vertical at Groupon, you will lead and inspire a team of engineers to develop scalable solutions that enhance our travel offerings. Your focus will be on driving innovation, ensuring the seamless operation of our travel platform, and collaborating cross-functionally to deliver top-notch customer experiences. You will be responsible for mentoring your team, optimizing performance, and ensuring alignment with Groupon’s strategic objectives. This role demands a combination of technical expertise, leadership, and a passion for the travel industry.

💪🏼You’ll spend time on the following:

• Leading a team of software engineers to help us develop microservices at a scale that is required for Groupon

• Hiring, mentoring and coaching your direct reports to be the best they can be

• Working cross-functionally with other teams to understand and prioritize user asks, features and tooling.

• Work with Commercial and Product stakeholders to ensure execution of Travel roadmap to meet business objectives

• Running ongoing delivery and daily operations of services

• Continuously improving the management and engineering processes for the team and services.

🏆We value Managers who have:

• B.E or higher degree in Computer Science with 8+ years of experience

• 2+ years of experience in leading a team of engineers.

• Experience building and growing a team of engineers.

• Experience designing and implementing large, scalable, distributed systems

• Good interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work with multiple languages Java, Javascript, Python, etc.

• Backend experience with RESTful API and RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL etc.)

• Proficiency in OO programming (Java preferred)

• Been a role model for engineers on the team, providing timely coaching and mentoring to all.

🎉We’re excited about you if you have:

• Experience with managing platform services, delivering projects in dynamic environment

• You have been responsible for building and leading a high performance engineering team

• You are highly technical with a strong background in computer science. You have a track record of handling technical design and completing projects with high quality.

• Good communication and collaboration skills and ability to deal with ambiguity

• You have experience motivating teams towards delivering business results in a dynamic agile environment.

• You are comfortable operating at leadership level as well as getting your hands dirty.

• You have experience in related domains within e-commerce.

• You have made decisions that impact technical design, development and planning for one or more projects/programs that impact multiple teams or functions.

• You frequently interact with multiple cross-functional teams and lead a cooperative effort to drive key technical projects.

🌍Our development ecosystem:

• Java, Ruby on Rails

• Node/Express JS,  React. js, React Native

• MySQL/PostgreSQL

• Redis / Memcache

• Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, 

• Wavefront, OpsGenie

• RESTful API design

• Asynchronous messaging / pub-sub 

• Deployment to cloud

• Jenkins CICD, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Cloud, GCP

• GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, Asana