Manager, Software Engineering II - Backend - Groupon

Our development ecosystem:

• Languages: Java, Spring, Ruby

• Frontend: Node/React JS

• MySQL/PostgreSQL

• Redis / Memcache

• ELK stack / ElasticSearch

• Wavefront, OpsGenie

• Microservices, RESTful API design

• Asynchronous messaging / pub-sub 

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

• GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, Asana

You’ll spend time on the following:

• You will take full ownership of the project deliveries of our global platform applications and ensure that we deliver the best outcome for our customers

• You will collaborate within the team and outside teams in the organizations to ensure that required business features, high performance and cost effective solution are implemented effectively

• Drive technical discussion and decisions within the team’s scope, participate in design and code reviews 

• Hire and develop the team members and manage their performance actively

• You will own multiple projects and teams may including other managers

• You will foster culture of collaboration, ownership and accountability

• You will evangelize the best practices for agile development practices

• You will make process improvements to ensure alignment with company values and optimize the resources

We’re excited about you if you have:

• BE/BTech or ME/MTech degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering from a recognised institute

• 10+ years of overall industry experience with 4 years of leadership (hands-on engineering management) role in developing and supporting web applications, micro services in distributed environment

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

• Experience with managing high performance individuals in different timezones

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

• Strong experience in programming languages - Java and competent in designing and building enterprise-scale applications, common frameworks, etc.

• Experience building and scaling large scale distributed systems and development experience with service-oriented architectures/microservices

• Prior AWS/GCP/Azure/Pivotal Cloud Foundry experience is a must.

• Experience with messaging systems like RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka etc.

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes desired

• Experience with both Relational(MySQL, Postgres) and Non-relational Databases(Cassandra, MongoDB) etc.

• Experience with ecommerce and/or SaaS based systems

• Experience with front-end technologies like Javascript, ReactJS, NodeJS, PreactJS etc. is a plus.

• Experience with cache like Memcache, Redis, Aerospike etc.,

• Experience and understanding of development frameworks like Spring, Play, DropWizard etc.

• Experience with big data technologies like Spark, Hadoop, Hive, HBase is a plus.

• Knowledge of software best practices, like Test-driven Development (TDD), and Continuous Integration/Delivery (CI-CD), Terraform based Infrastructure As Code (IAC), Wavefront, ELK, Splunk etc

• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Ability to work collaboratively through an agile development process that promotes constant team communication

We value engineers who are:

● Customer-focused: We believe that doing what’s right for the customer is ultimately what will drive our business forward.

● Obsessed with Quality: Your Production code Just Works& scales linearly

● Team Players: You believe that more can be achieved together. You listen to feedback and also provide supportive feedback to help others grow/improve.

● Fast Learners: We are willing to disrupt our existing business to trial new products and solutions. You love learning how to use new technologies and then rapidly apply them to new problems.

● Pragmatic: We do things quickly to learn what our customers desire. You know when it’s appropriate to take shortcuts that don’t sacrifice quality or maintainability.

● Owners: Engineers at Groupon know how to positively impact the business.