Software Development Engineer III

Are you a passionate, energetic technology enthusiast eager to work at a rapid pace with the flexibility to work across a broad tech stack?

Groupon is an experiences marketplace that brings people more ways to get the most out of their city or wherever they may be. By enabling real-time mobile commerce across local businesses, live events, and travel destinations, Groupon helps people find and discover experiences––big and small, new and familiar––that make for a full, fun, and rewarding life. Groupon helps local businesses grow and strengthen customer relationships––resulting in strong, vibrant communities. With employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking, and celebrates success. Our culture encourages employees to embrace change, adapt to new circumstances, and find creative solutions to the challenges we face. Does that sound like a great way to grow your career? Let’s get into the details:

We are looking for a skilled and experienced front-end developer who is motivated to combine the art of design with the art of programming. The selected candidate will be liable to build and extend our suite of client-facing web applications. The developer must be capable of understanding and transforming customer needs into a functional and engaging digital environment to ensure a great user experience. If you share our passion to define, create and delight, we are happy to hear from you!

You’ll spend time on the following:

• You will collaborate with teams in other organization to ensure that required business features and compliance rules are implemented effectively

• Managing the full software development lifecycle from technical design to development, testing and deployment

• Improving your and the team's skills through knowledge-sharing and hackathon

• Create and maintain documentation for your projects

• Mentor junior staff

• Drive the discussion and decisions of technical topics related to the team

We’re excited about you if you have:

• BE/BTech or ME/MTech degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field

• 6+ years of industry experience

• Excellent coding skills preferably using JavaScript / Typescript

• Strong experience using Vuejs/React or similar web development frameworks or libraries.

• Deep knowledge of web technologies such as HTML5, CSS (SCSS, LESS), JSON, Object-oriented JavaScript

• At least one full lifecycle web application built with modern web frameworks / libraries,
  featuring API communication to the Rest API or GraphQL backend

• Experience with build tools such as Webpack and Vite

• Rigour in high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices.

• Strong debugging skills

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

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.

• Owners: Engineers at Groupon know how to positively impact the business.