Senior Ruby on Rails Developer - Financial Engineering

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

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 experienced 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 an experienced Ruby on Rails Developer to join our highly skilled finance engineering team. 

The finance engineering team makes sure that Groupon merchants receive their payment on time and accurately. We are constantly making improvements to ensure automated accounting and payments that can scale with the business. 

You’ll spend time on the following:

• Implementing, testing, deploying code changes, and providing production support in biweekly iterations

• Conduct code reviews, testing, and debugging to ensure software quality and reliability

• Participate in Agile/Scrum development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives

• Monitoring service health, and addressing internal message errors and inconsistent workflows that directly impact invoicing (merchant payments)

• Collaborating with Product and Engineering management to understand requirements and design flexible solutions for our global systems

• Keep up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends to continuously improve software development processes and practices

We’re excited about you if you have:

• 5+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails (AND Ruby)

• Basics of metaprogramming in Ruby 

• Understanding concepts of concurrency and parallelism, or at least experience with multithreading

• Basic experience with cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure), basic experience with Kubernetes

• Experience with the Agile development lifecycle.

• Knowledge Jenkins and Git

• Good Understanding of Databases (MySQL, Postgres, etc..).

• Knowledge of REST APIs

• Experience with caching tools (E.g. Memcache, Redis)

• You have strong problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities. 

• You possess excellent communication skills that facilitate interaction with multiple stakeholders.

• You are confident, detail-oriented, and highly motivated to contribute to the growth of the organization as part of a high-performing team.

• You have the ability to work under pressure and adhere to tight deadlines.

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of Java

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.

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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