Staff Software Engineer - Backend

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!
On the Grubhub Commerce Platform engineering team, we are responsible for building & maintaining stable, secure, and extensible services to facilitate the critical order taking path for our customers. In this role, you will drive the technical direction of the Payments Platform, supporting vaulting and the transactional lifecycle for all orders at Grubhub. You will build a platform that supports extension along with coordinating and implementing changes across services and teams all while ensuring visibility into the system health.
The Impact You Will Make:

• You'll work with Grubhub's Payments Platform team to oversee and architect the platform to meet the critical payment functions for supporting customer order taking
• You'll interface with industry leading 3rd party payment service providers
• You'll evaluate tools, technologies, frameworks, and vendors for the platform along with other senior team members
• You'll help to create projects and shape the backlog of features, long term architecture, and tech debt, suggesting areas for improvement and enhancement
• You'll actively work with other teams across Grubhub collaborating on how the Payments platform integrates with their systems
• You'll mentor other engineers including development and career progression coaching across the organization
• You'll actively contribute to the organizational standards of software architecture, best practices, and technologies.

What You Bring to the Table:

• Bachelor's Degree in a science, programming or engineering related field
• 7+ years experience building highly-scalable applications
• Experience mentoring junior engineers
• Experience coordinating solutions across multiple teams
• Experience with Java 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, mockito + jmeter/ gatling.io)
• Strong computer science fundamentals (data structures, algorithms)
• Building observability as part of the application
• Distributed database experience with Cassandra or similar NoSQL database experience preferred
• CI / CD tools experience like Gradle, Jenkins, or similar technologies
• Ability to work and communicate within and across teams and to communicate technical solutions to non-technical people.
• Interest in working for a fast paced, product oriented tech company

Got These? Even Better:

• Experience working with 3rd party payment service providers
• Experience working with PCI scoped application development
• Experience working with transactional e-commerce / payments systems

The base salary range for this position is below:
Chicago: $196,000-$294,000 base salary range
Grubhub uses geographic specific salary structures, which means the salary offered may vary depending on where the job is located. The final salary offer will take into account various factors, such as the candidate's skills, education, training, credentials, and experience.
As a matter of company policy, Grubhub does not sponsor applicants for employment visa status for this role.
And Of Course, Perks!

• Flexible PTO. Grubhub employees enjoy a generous amount of time to recharge.
• Health and Wellness. Excellent medical, dental and vision benefits, 401k matching, employee network groups and paid parental leave are just a few of our programs to support your overall well-being.
• Free Meals. Our employees get a weekly Grubhub credit to enjoy.
• Social Impact. At Grubhub we believe in giving back through programs like the Grubhub Community Fund . Employees are also given paid time off each year to support the causes that are important to them.

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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