Grubhub is seeking a Backend Engineering Manager to join our team. You will play a key role in translating business objectives into technical plans, monitoring system performance, and driving improvements that contribute to both user satisfaction and business success. Additionally, you'll be instrumental in growing and mentoring your team, attracting top engineering talent, and ensuring that our systems remain at the forefront of industry standards.

This role can be based in our Chicago or NYC office working a hybrid in office 2 x per week schedule. We do not offer remote at this time.

The Impact You Will Make

• Manage a team of software engineers, including providing guidance on their career progression, planning, and continually challenging them to raise the bar.
• Communicate with stakeholders, product owners, other technologists, and users to create software based on an understanding of business and technical priorities.
• Be accountable for delivery, deployment, maintenance, monitoring the performance of the application and the platform.
• Evaluate tools, technologies, and vendors for the platform along with other senior team members.
• Ensure that your team maintains a high bar for quality and follows established engineering and operational guidelines.
• Facilitate your team's agile operations by overseeing all sprints and manage the team backlog.
• Participate in future product direction, drive technology strategy and execution.
• Create a backlog of Tech Debts/ Features, suggesting areas of improvement and ensuring short-term decisions don't build into long-term problems.

What You Bring To The Table

• Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Programming or Engineering related field
• 7+ years experience building highly scalable consumer-facing applications (e-commerce preferred)
• 3+ years experience managing a team of Engineers and providing mentorship and career progression and planning in a formal setting
• Strong proficiency and experience with Java, C#, or a similar modern object-oriented language
• Strong fundamentals of computer science (object oriented programming, foundations of data structures and algorithms, etc) to guide the team in building optimal solutions
• Experience architecting, designing, and developing testable, fault-tolerant, and performant software
• AWS experience, or similar cloud-based offerings
• Experience with eventually consistent databases (Cassandra/MongoDB/CouchDB). Experience with ElasticSearch is a big plus
• Experience with Memcache/ Redis Distributed Caching mechanisms
• Automated testing experience applicable for services (Junit/testing, Mockito + JMeter/Gatling.io)
• Experience developing highly-available distributed systems (5x9’s uptime etc.)
• Docker, or similar containerized solutions
• CI / CD tools preferable Gradle, Jenkins or similar
• Experience with stakeholder management with data-driven communication and prioritization

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.
• Free Meals. Our employees get a weekly Grubhub credit to enjoy.
• Social Impact. At Grubhub we believe in giving back through programs like the Grubhub Community Fund . Employees are also given paid time off each year to support the causes that are important to them.

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 a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to and let us know the nature of your request and contact information. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

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