Engineering Manager - Global Platform Applications - Remote

Overview

Groupon is a marketplace where customers discover new experiences and services everyday and local businesses thrive. To date we have worked with over a million merchant partners worldwide, connecting over 16 million customers with deals across various categories. In a world often dominated by e-commerce giants, we stand out as one of the few platforms uniquely committed to helping local businesses succeed on a performance basis.

Groupon is on a radical journey to transform our business with relentless pursuit of results. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. The impact here can be immediate due to our scale and the speed of our transformation. We're a "best of both worlds" kind of company. We're big enough to have the resources and scale, but small enough that a single person has a surprising amount of autonomy and can make a meaningful impact.

In Short

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

Benefits

• 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 and 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.