Principal Engineer - Diner Experience
About The Opportunity
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 strong relationships, embraces diverse ideas-all while having fun together-Grubhub is the place for you!
We are looking for a Principal Engineer who relishes responsibility and has the interpersonal and engineering skills to collaborate, evangelize, and put state-of-the-art research into practice. As a Principal Engineer on our Diner Experience team, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the platform of apps and services accountable for ensuring an optimal diner experience. You'll be focused on the resiliency, scale, latency, and throughput required to help Grubhub continue to meet demand. They also need to be evangelists and collaborators. Our Diner experience includes native and web applications, as well as frontend optimized services. We also rely on accurate experience metics and attribution to ensure an accurate representation of our diner experience. As Such, our products require collaboration between engineers, decision scientists, data analysts, a proven operations team, and a product team that's thinking end-to-end.
The Impact You Will Make
- Provide input to shape the charter and structure of the diner application platforms.
- Help lead Grubhub's continued expansion into all aspects of our business, including corporate, enterprise, campus, and in-store, by further scaling our systems and teams
- Help improve and mature the customer's perception of our technology and brand.
- Help extend the effectiveness of the current team through coaching and mentoring .
- Build highly -scalable, world-class algorithms that solve complicated optimization and validation problems. Understand how to translate research into working software.
- Work with product and operations leaders to understand our business and our customers' needs and provide solutions for those needs.
- Design extensible software architectures that allow GrubHub to be agile and react to changes quickly.
- Design reliable software and processes that allow GrubHub to offer a high-quality experience. Deal with edge cases gracefully and put strategies in place to ensure we do everything we can to provide a great customer experience.
- Help adopt robust software architecture, development best practices, new technologies, and pioneer within your team and the company
- Work with our SRE team to improve Operational Excellence .
What You Bring to the Table
- Degree in Science, Programming or Engineering related field and 10+ years experience building highly -scalable applications (eCommerce preferred )
- Experience devising , building, and releasing complex technical systems
- Direct experience with marketplaces, high throughput consumer applications.
- Collaborate with C-level executives and across broad organizations, including product, operations, finance, and care
- Demonstrated experience launching new products in high growth markets
- Familiarity and comfort with consumer applications, including the ability to use data to analyze and monitor product health
- Ability to weigh competing priorities , manage tradeoffs, and evaluate opportunistic new ideas with stakeholders , driving to consensus while maintaining a clear focus on overarching technical architecture.
- Experience with real-time platforms, continuous integration, and build tools.
- Familiar with Agile methodologies
- Javascript , Swift, Kotlin, Java, or a similar modern application language
- Experience architecting , designing, and developing testable, fault-tolerant, and performant software
- Automated testing applicable for frontend applications (TestCafe, Apple's XCUITest, or equivalent)
- Familiarity with microservice standards and security authentication state
- Familiarity or experience with multi-region applications, CDN, and caching
And Of Course, Perks!
- Flexible PTO. Grubhub employees enjoy a generous amount of time to recharge.
- Health and Wellness. Excellent medical, dental and vision benefits, 401k matching, employee network groups and paid parental leave are just a few of our programs to support your overall well-being.
- Compensation. You'll receive a great compensation package with eligibility for generous incentives, bonuses, commission, or RSUs (role-specific).
- Free Meals . Our employees get a weekly Grubhub credit to enjoy and support local restaurants.
- Social Impact. We believe in giving back through programs like the Grubhub Community Relief Fund, and provide our employees opportunities to support causes that are important to them.
Vaccination Requirement
Grubhub employees are required to be fully vaccinated. You must confirm vaccination status at time of hire, and must provide proof of full-Covid-19 vaccination within 2 weeks of starting employment. Fully vaccinated is defined as: "2 weeks have passed since your second dose in a 2-dose series, such as the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or 2 weeks after a single-dose vaccine, such as Johnson & Johnson's vaccine.
Grubhub is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity and encourage a workplace that is just as diverse as the customers we serve. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. If you're applying for a job in the U.S. and need an accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and contact information.
Grubhub is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity and encourage a workplace that is just as diverse as the customers we serve. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. If you're applying for a job in the U.S. and need an accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request and contact information.
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