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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. Were a "best of both worlds" kind of company. Were 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. Become a better developer by building things that help local businesses around the world thrive. Are you a passionate, energetic technology enthusiast eager to work at a rapid pace with the flexibility to work across a broad tech stack? The Campaign Manager team under Supply works on building and enhancing the self-service tools that are used by Merchants to create and edit their campaigns on Groupon. We are looking for a software engineer to join our team to support and evolve the design, implementation, and operational support of internal systems that span the business side and engineering departments. Our development ecosystem: Languages: Java, J2EE MySQL/PostgreSQL Redis/Memcache ELK stack / ElasticSearch RESTful API design Kafka, Spark Jenkins CICD, Docker, K8S, AWS cloud, Wavefront (metrics) GitHub, JIRA, Confluence You ll spend time on the following: You will take full ownership of the technical aspects of our global technology infrastructure, ensuring that the platform is being used to its fullest potential through designing and building applications around our customer s needs. You will Design/Develop/Migrate/Maintain a myriad of SEM and Display engineering services for AWS Cloud & Kubernetes environment. You will collaborate within the team and outside teams in the organisations to ensure that required business features, high performance, and cost-effective solutions are implemented effectively. Build service artifacts, estimate and plan for deployment, and coordinate timelines and tasks with project management and teams. Improve service stability and performance by identifying critical service-specific metrics, setting meaningful alerting thresholds, and automating alerting responses. Drive the discussion and decisions on technical topics related to the team s scope. We re excited about you if you have: BE/BTech or ME/MTech degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering from a recognised institute 10+ years of industry experience in developing and supporting web applications, and microservices, and troubleshooting internal and external requests /bug reports in a distributed environment. Strong coding skills in one or more object-oriented programming languages like Java or C++ Strong problem-solving, debugging skills, data structure, and algorithms fundamentals. Must have experience with REST API-based development of microservices, relational databases (MySQL or Postgres), ORMs Exposure to asynchronous messaging platforms like ActiveMQ, and Kafka is plus. Good communication and collaboration skills and ability to deal with ambiguity. We value engineers who are: 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 & 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. Groupon is an AI-First Company We re committed to building smarter, faster, and more innovative ways of working and AI plays a key role in how we get there. We encourage candidates to leverage AI tools during the hiring process where it adds value, and we re always keen to hear how technology improves the way you work. If you re passionate about AI or curious to explore how it can elevate your role you ll be right at home here. Groupon s purpose is to build strong communities through thriving small businesses. To learn more about the world s largest local e-commerce marketplace, click here . You can also find out more about us in the latest Groupon new s as well as learning about our DEI approach . If all of this sounds like something that s a great fit for you, then click apply and join us on a mission to become the ultimate destination for local experiences and services. Beware of Recruitment Fraud: Groupon follows a merit-based recruitment process without charging job seekers any fees. Weve noticed an increase in recruitment fraud, including fake job postings and fraudulent interviews and job offers aimed at stealing personal information or money. Be cautious of individuals falsely representing Groupons Talent Acquisition team with fake job offers. If you encounter any suspicious job offers or interview calls demanding money, recognize these as scams. Groupon is not responsible for losses from such dealings. For legitimate job openings (and a sneak peek into life at Groupon), always check our official career website at Groupon Careers
