Lead Software Engineer- Service Team
GrubHub Holdings is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to provide technical and architectural leadership for multiple development teams as they conceptualize, design, build, and deploy to the field new and innovative products. This role will have a direct impact on customers and will interface with multiple product and engineering groups
Some Challenges You’ll Tackle
- Direct a small team of developers to design, evolve and maintain the user platform for multiple internal and public websites - including grubhub.com and seamless.com.
- Work with the platform team, product teams and other engineering groups to plan the road map of the user services.
- Research and identify best practices, in both the software engineering discipline and within the security realm
- Manage agile development process for the team
- Cultivate existing talent and recruit and grow team as needed
- 7+ years of experience in Java/ Scala(programming)
- Cloud (AWS)
- Understanding of Cassandra and NoSQL
- Development and maintenance of an E-commerce website
- Development in an Agile environment
- Strong grasp of software engineering methods, architectural principles and data structure fundamentals
- Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills - specifically with performance, memory and non-obvious bug tracking
- Strong knowledge of architectural patterns related to high availability, scalability and reliability.
- Experience developing and maintaining a customer facing website or service that receives a significant amount of traffic
- Understands the importance of testing and its many forms
- Good organizational and time management skills
You will have the opportunity to learn:
- Understanding of OWASP best practices, common attack vectors and vulnerabilities, cryptographic methods
- Oauth2, SAML and other authentication technologies
- Unlimited paid vacation days. Choose how your time is spent.
- Never go hungry! We provide weekly GrubHub/Seamless credit.
- Regular in-office social events, including happy hours, wine tastings, karaoke, bingo with prizes and more.
- Company-Wide Initiatives encouraging innovation, continuous learning and cross-department connections.