Sr. Software Engineer backend

The Checkout Platform team consists of backend engineers that own critical core domain services that manage the cart lifecycle tax calculation and checkout for all Grubhub orders.

The Impact You Will Make:

• Youll gain expertise in the Checkout Platform domain and build and maintain highly scalable & reliable features and services on our platform

• Youll be accountable for delivery deployment maintenance and monitoring the performance of your applications and the platform as a whole

• Youll write performant and concise code to meet the defined standards here at Grubhub review the code of peers and ensure security and scalability of the features you work on

• Youll help define the backlog of tech debt and features suggesting areas for improvement and enhancement

• Youll actively work with other team members and mentor junior engineers

• Collaborate with Product Managers and engineers from other teams to enhance functionality and plan project work

• Youll evaluate tools technologies frameworks and vendors for the platform along with other senior team members

What You Bring to the Table:

• Bachelors Degree in a science programming or engineering related field

• 5 years experience building highly-scalable consumer-facing applications

• Experience with Java or other object-oriented languages

• Experience architecting designing and developing testable fault tolerant and performant software with emphasis on future evolution

• Interest in working for a fast paced product oriented tech company

• Experience with complex systems composed of multiple components spread across the network

• Strong programming fundamentals (data structures algorithms)

• Distributed database experience with Cassandra or similar NoSQL database experience preferred

• 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

• A sense of accountability for developed software and ownership of upstream and downstream dependencies

• AWS experience or similar cloud based offerings

• Experience developing highly-available distributed systems (4x9s uptime etc.)

• Automated testing experience applicable for services (junit/testing mockito jmeter/ )

• Building observability as part of the application

• Experience modeling system resource requirements as system load changes

• Experience with Docker or similar containerized solutions

• CI / CD tools experience like Gradle Jenkins Spinnaker or similar technologies

• Passion for challenging the status quo understanding new things and solving problems in creative and unconventional ways