Software Development Engineer III - Data and Backend

Become a better developer by building things that help local businesses around the world thrive.

Groupon provides a global marketplace where people can buy just about anything, anywhere, anytime. We’re enabling real-time commerce across an expanding range of categories including local businesses, travel destinations, consumer products, and live or lively events. At the same time, we are providing advertising options and tools that merchants can use to grow and manage their businesses. Culturally, we believe that great people make great companies and that starting with the customer and working backward moves us forward. Community matters to us on an internal, local and global scale—it’s fundamental to our company’s growth and to the well-being of the world at large. We also value self-awareness, candor, lunch and WiFi. If we match with you, please apply to join us.
Take this unique opportunity to join one of the fastest-growing companies in the world. We’re changing the way merchants and consumers connect with each other worldwide, and the change has barely started. As we continue to evolve, our vision is to become the operating system for local commerce by providing an integrated suite of tools and services for local businesses to help them understand their customers better, compete effectively, and increase profits. To help us on this mission, we are looking for exceptional software engineers at our Bangalore,India development center who share our passion for crafting a new evolution in local commerce.

Groupon is looking for a Software engineer to work on our next generation marketing platform. The successful candidate will have strong experience developing world-class, service-oriented architecture software in an internet company. As part of the computational marketing team, this role will work on various areas such as, scalable distributed systems, real time data analysis, and big data technologies.

You’ll spend time on the following:

• Drive technical design & architecture for products & services owned.

• Design, implement, test, maintain, and own high-performance web services.

• Research various open source technologies and Big data tenchnologies to solve existing and future problems.

• Rapidly iterate to add new functionality, solve complex problems with simple, intuitive, and customer focused solutions while shipping quality applications.

• Translate business, marketing and functional into detailed technical requirements and architecture and technical design and work plans.

• Apply experience to incrementally develop software development process and infrastructure that enable us to measure and improve the performance output of systems, products, features and services.

We’re excited about you if you have:

• B.E. or higher in Computer Science or equivalent
• 6+ years of experience in software development.
• Experience in software development and coding in various languages (esp. Java,Python, Scala etc.)

• Backend experience with RESTful API and RDBMS.

• Experience with relational databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL etc

• Experience working with Agile methodologies and be comfortable with a fast-paced, always-on, start-up environment.

• 3+ years of experience using big data technologies, databases and tools HDFS, YARN, Sqoop, Hive, Spark, Airflow, Storm.

• Responsible for the architecture of your product; ensuring it is aligned to the requirements and the charter.

• Driving the adoption of these best practices around coding, design, quality, performance in your team.

• Proven experience on any of the Cloud platforms - AWS/Azure/GCP

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with NoSQL databases like Mongodb, Redis, HBase, Cassandra etc.

• Experience with any of the messaging Queues like RabbitMQ, Kafka etc.

• Experience with java frameworks like Spring, Play or DropWizard

• Experience with ecommerce and digital marketing

• Experience with high scale systems

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 is clean, tested, and 'just works'
• 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

Groupon’s purpose is to build strong communities through thriving small businesses. To learn more about the world’s largest local ecommerce marketplace, click here. You can also find out more about us in the latest Groupon news as well as learning about our DEI approach. If all of this sounds like something that’s a great fit for you, then click apply and join us on a mission to become the ultimate destination for local experiences and services.

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