ENGINEERING MANAGER- BACKEND
Company: Grubhub
Location: Chicago
Posted on: October 29, 2024
Job Description:
Grubhub is seeking a Backend Engineering Manager to join our
team. You will play a key role in translating business objectives
into technical plans, monitoring system performance, and driving
improvements that contribute to both user satisfaction and business
success. Additionally, you'll be instrumental in growing and
mentoring your team, attracting top engineering talent, and
ensuring that our systems remain at the forefront of industry
standards.
This role can be based in our Chicago or NYC office working a
hybrid in office 2 x per week schedule. We do not offer remote at
this time.
The Impact You Will Make
- Manage a team of software engineers, including providing
guidance on their career progression, planning, and continually
challenging them to raise the bar.
- Communicate with stakeholders, product owners, other
technologists, and users to create software based on an
understanding of business and technical priorities.
- Be accountable for delivery, deployment, maintenance,
monitoring the performance of the application and the
platform.
- Evaluate tools, technologies, and vendors for the platform
along with other senior team members.
- Ensure that your team maintains a high bar for quality and
follows established engineering and operational guidelines.
- Facilitate your team's agile operations by overseeing all
sprints and manage the team backlog.
- Participate in future product direction, drive technology
strategy and execution.
- Create a backlog of Tech Debts/ Features, suggesting areas of
improvement and ensuring short-term decisions don't build into
long-term problems.
What You Bring To The Table
- Master's or Bachelor's Degree in Science, Programming or
Engineering related field
- 7+ years experience building highly scalable consumer-facing
applications (e-commerce preferred)
- 3+ years experience managing a team of Engineers and providing
mentorship and career progression and planning in a formal
setting
- Strong proficiency and experience with Java, C#, or a similar
modern object-oriented language
- Strong fundamentals of computer science (object oriented
programming, foundations of data structures and algorithms, etc) to
guide the team in building optimal solutions
- Experience architecting, designing, and developing testable,
fault-tolerant, and performant software
- AWS experience, or similar cloud-based offerings
- Experience with eventually consistent databases
(Cassandra/MongoDB/CouchDB). Experience with ElasticSearch is a big
plus
- Experience with Memcache/ Redis Distributed Caching
mechanisms
- Automated testing experience applicable for services
(Junit/testing, Mockito + JMeter/Gatling.io)
- Experience developing highly-available distributed systems
(5x9's uptime etc.)
- Docker, or similar containerized solutions
- CI / CD tools preferable Gradle, Jenkins or similar
- Experience with stakeholder management with data-driven
communication and prioritization
And Of Course, Perks!
- Flexible PTO. Grubhub employees enjoy a generous amount of time
to recharge.
- Health and Wellness. Excellent medical benefits, employee
network groups and paid parental leave are just a few of our
programs to support your overall well-being.
- Competitive Pay. You'll receive a competitive base salary with
eligibility for generous incentives, bonuses, commission or RSUs
(role-specific).
- Learning and Career Growth. Your personal and professional
development is a priority at Grubhub. We empower you to be a leader
and grow your career through training, coaching and mentorship
opportunities.
- MealPerks. Get meals on us! Our employees get a weekly Grubhub
credit to enjoy and support local restaurants.
- Fun. Every Grubhub office has an employee-led Culture Crew that
connects people through fun, meaningful events and initiatives like
Wellness Wednesdays, Slack competitions and virtual happy
hours!
- Social Impact. At Grubhub we believe in giving back through
programs like the Grubhub Community Relief Fund and donating $1
million to the Equal Justice Initiative in 2020. Employees are also
given paid time off each year to support the causes that are
important to them.
Keywords: Grubhub, Skokie , ENGINEERING MANAGER- BACKEND, Executive , Chicago, Illinois
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