Senior Software Engineer-Recommendations
We work with awesome people every day. We don’t mean “awesome” like how other people use “awesome”—in some conjunctive form with “sauce” or “balls.” We really mean it. We work with some of the greatest people in the tech industry here at GrubHub. We’re looking for more.
GrubHub leads in the mobile food-ordering industry with a portfolio of brands that includes GrubHub, Seamless, MenuPages and Allmenus. We’re dedicated to connecting hungry diners with local restaurants. With offices in New York City, Chicago and London, GrubHub supports every order with 24/7 customer service.
We want you to enjoy where you work. Who you work with. What you work on. At GrubHub, you can order your cake and eat it too.
About The Job:
We are looking for engineers to help us dramatically expand and improve our set of products while simultaneously supporting a massive increase in the capacity of our systems. We have been extremely picky about assembling a team of smart, humble people who are passionate about creating amazing products. We work in an agile manner and believe strongly that small cross-functional teams empowered to make decisions and move fast are the best way to do so. This is an unbeatable opportunity for developers who hope to work on and deliver world class software in a friendly, fun, and innovative environment.
About team :
Recommendations team, is all about building recommender systems. The team loves solving qualitative problems and personalizing the right content for the right set of users. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about
- Feature engineering : identifying the right set of features for specific use cases
- Identifying right family of ML algorithms and building models
- Defining system level metrics for model evaluation
- Building the model training for production using big data tools
- Real time scoring of model in the service layer
- Big data challenges to scale your model to millions of users and items
- Maintain recommendation REST APIs with fast response times while managing space and run-time complexities for real time scoring of the model.
- Design, implement, and deliver awesome technical platforms and products for all constituencies (diners, corporate accounts, restaurants, internal tools)
- Understand our products from both a technical and business perspective in the context of our larger business.
- Communicate with leadership, product owners, other technologists, and users to create working software based on an understanding of business and technical priorities.
- Break down complex problems into elegant technical solutions to intelligently solve problems for GrubHub.com diners, restaurant, corporate accounts and internal stakeholders
- Actively contribute to the adoption of strong software architecture, development best practices, and new technologies. We are always improving the process of building software; we need you to help contribute.
- You will be a key part in accurately estimating the timing of software delivery
- Good understanding of Java
- Brownie points if you have experience with recommender systems (but not strictly required)
- Familiarity with Spark, Hadoop, Python, Scala
- Ability to interact with Data Scientists
- Understanding of unit testing and version control
- Familiar with Agile software development methodologies
- E-commerce experience is a plus
- Willingness to understand larger business context
- Fast paced, tech and product oriented company
- Desire to work with a great team! Must be genuinely awesome
- If you are based in a city outside of New York, feel free to apply! Relocation may be possible for an ideal candidate!
- 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.
We deliver favorites every day. Join us as we move eating forward.
Grubhub is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here: DOL Poster. Grubhub is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.