Software Engineering Manager

Overview

Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at Grubhub & Wonder

Why Work For Us

Grubhub, part of Wonder Group Inc, is all about connecting hungry diners with our network of over 375,000 merchants 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!

The Impact You Will Make

We’re looking for someone to join the Merchant team as an Engineering Manager who will be responsible for owning and building core order processing services as well key partner integrations across convenience, grocery, alcohol, and other new vertical spaces. This is an opportunity to shape how we bridge the gap between prepared foods and consumer packaged goods while connecting millions of users with the products that they need in real time. You will be responsible for a team that will define, architect, build, maintain, and scale new and innovative features for our users. Our Engineering Managers wear a lot of hats – you will work with other technology teams, product managers, product designers, and business stakeholders to build new business lines and scale them to millions of users across the country.

Duties will include

• Lead and coach a team of senior and junior engineers tasked with delivering performant, flexible, and scalable features.
• Craft a meaningful vision for the team, working in concert with product managers and other multi-location technology teams. Guide the team as you build out features that pave the way for new lines of business.
• Work with product and business leaders to identify your roadmap and build deliverables and timelines.
• Run your team's agile ceremonies. Positively influence the planning, refinement, and execution of your team’s goals in a rapid development environment.
• Build a diverse team while fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment.
• Build and utilize metrics to analyze features as they are deployed to Production to ensure they are functioning as expected and properly alerting when necessary.
• Contribute to the adoption of strong software architecture, development best practices, and new technologies.

What You Bring to the Table

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Programming or Engineering related field or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years software engineering experience including 2+ years of management experience
• Experience managing a team of Engineers and providing mentorship and coaching on career growth.
• Strong proficiency with Java, Kotlin, and microservice architecture. Kafka, Python, and Apache Spark experience is helpful.
• Strong understanding of AWS offerings like EC2, S3, and Lambda.
• Experience building multi-datacenter hot-hot architectures.
• Ability to debug production issues with observability and logging tools.
• Pattern of building, owning, and maintaining scalable and reusable services, features, and components
• Experience prioritizing and improving test coverage while designing for testability
• Track record of advocating for the adoption of strong software architecture, development best practices, and new technologies
• Experience being self-directed and responsible for deliverables
• Familiar with Agile methodologies
• You will work with your team to monitor and ensure the health of the platform, which includes a 24/7 hour on-call rotation, to ensure a great customer experience

Behaviors we expect of all leaders in our engineering organization

• Build and enable great teams - Leaders recruit, inspire, grow and empower amazing people and teams. They remove blockers, coach, and build mechanisms to enable scale, efficiency, and quality.
• We recognize, celebrate, and double down on success - Our employees are multi-faceted, recognizing their skills and interests will keep our people engaged and motivated.
• Know what you’re talking about - We dive deep, understanding the subject matter at the absolute not the abstract level. We build trust because we understand and focus on the details. You have shown the ability to gather the data required to make your decisions.
• High Bar - Leaders set the bar high, push the boundaries, and hold themselves and teams accountable.
• Innovative - Leaders think long-term and platform-wide, inventing their way around constraints to deliver breakthrough solutions, not settling for the status quo.
• Make Informed Decisions - We favor data-driven, objective decisions. Never myopic or short sighted, always focused on what’s right for Grubhub. We are also willing to revisit the decision when the world changes.
• Ownership - Leaders own problems, decisions, and messages. We look for people to broaden their responsibility and accountability beyond the things they directly own or have direct influence over.
• Humble and self-critical - Leaders always learn, admit mistakes, and strive to improve.
• Trust and respect - Leaders earn trust through the consistency, transparency, and fairness of their actions. We always treat others with respect.
• Get stuff done - Leaders focus on results. They simplify complexity, executing with a sense of urgency and purpose.
• Communicates Effectively - Listen actively, stay engaged in conversation, be genuine & authentic, understand impact of words and nonverbal cues.

Compensation and Benefits

• 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 Grubhub supports the Grubhub Community Fund and offers paid time off to support causes important to employees.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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 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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Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Technology

Industries

• Technology, Information and Internet

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