Back End Developer

Hey! We’re Grubhub

We're all about connecting hungry diners with our network of over 300,000 restaurants nationwide. User-friendly platforms and streamlined delivery capabilities set us apart in the world of online food ordering. 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 relationships, embraces diverse ideas–all while having fun together–then Grubhub is the place for you!

The Impact You Will Make

You’ll gain expertise in your domain and build highly scalable & reliable additions to our platformYou’ll be accountable for delivery, deployment, maintenance, and monitoring the performance of your applications and the platform as a wholeYou’ll evaluate tools, technologies, frameworks, and vendors for the platform along with other senior team membersYou’ll write performant and concise code to meet the defined standards here at GrubHub, review the code of peers, and ensure security and scalability of the features you work onYou’ll help to create the backlog of tech debt and features, suggesting areas for improvement and enhancementYou’ll actively work with other team members in the domain and be a team player

What You Bring to the Table

Bachelor’s Degree in a science, programming or engineering related field5+ years experience building highly-scalable consumer-facing applications (e-commerce preferred)Experience with Java or other object-oriented languagesExperience architecting, designing, and developing testable, fault tolerant, and performant software with emphasis on future evolutionExperience with complex systems composed of multiple components spread across the networkAWS experience, or similar cloud based offeringsAutomated testing experience applicable for services (junit/testing, mockito + jmeter/ gatling.io)Strong fundamentals (data structures, algorithms)Experience developing highly-available distributed systems (4x9’s uptime etc.)Building observability as part of the applicationExperience modeling system resource requirements as system load changesInterest in working for a fast paced, product oriented tech companyDistributed database experience with Cassandra or similar NoSQL database experience preferredDocker, or similar containerized solutionsCI / CD tools experience like Gradle, Jenkins, Spinnaker, or similar technologiesExperience leading as an individual contributor, i.e. time prioritization, self-management, and working within and across teams to drive resultsDedication to improving the customer experience and designing systems to avoid poor customer experience during outages and guarantee the availability of servicesPassion for challenging the status quo, understanding new things, and solving problems in creative and unconventional waysA sense of accountability for developed software and ownership of upstream and downstream dependency

Key Skills

• AWS
• Backend
• Java
• Microservices