Engineering Manager - Java Backend - Marketing Org

Madrid

Groupon is a marketplace where customers discover new experiences and services everyday and local businesses thrive.

To date we have worked with over a million merchant partners worldwide, connecting over 16 million customers with deals across various categories. In a world often dominated by e-commerce giants, we stand out as one of the few platforms uniquely committed to helping local businesses succeed on a performance basis.

Groupon is on a radical journey to transform our business with relentless pursuit of results. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. The impact here can be immediate due to our scale and the speed of our transformation. We re a "best of both worlds" kind of company.

We re big enough to have the resources and scale, but small enough that a single person has a surprising amount of autonomy and can make a meaningful impact.

We are undergoing a radical transformation—and we’re seeking engineering leaders for the Marketing org (Organic or paid marketing domains), powering millions of real-time communications and defining the future.

Our mission is to drive engagement and conversions by reaching the right users with the right message at the right time—without relying on paid media.

• Languages:
  
  Java, Spring, Ruby
• Frontend:
  NodeJS, ReactJS
• Monitoring & Logging: ELK, Wavefront, Splunk
• Development Tools:
  Git Hub, Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence, Asana

As an Engineering Manager II (EM II), your work will directly contribute to our business-critical platforms and global communications infrastructure. You will be accountable for:

• Drive reliability, performance, and personalization across our Dispatch and Subscription systems.
• Achieve a 99.99% delivery success rate and under 1s latency for real-time communications.
• Lead engineering teams focused on the evolution and scalability of our subscription systems.
• Enable 2x growth in subscriber engagement and conversion over the next 12 months.

• Reduce technical debt and optimize resource usage across core services by modernizing legacy infrastructure and adopting cloud-native patterns.
• Achieve a 30% reduction in platform operational costs while improving performance benchmarks.

• Build high-performing, autonomous, and globally distributed teams that execute with agility and ownership.
• Maintain 90%+ team engagement and less than 10% regrettable attrition, with measurable velocity improvements.
• Champion the integration of AI/ML where it enhances business outcomes, from system automation to intelligent routing and customer experience.
• Deliver at least 2 AI-driven features or systems into production per year.

• Take full ownership of the project deliveries across multiple platform services.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure delivery of business features aligned with cost, scale, and speed goals.
• Drive technical discussion and decisions within the team’s scope, participate in design and code reviews
• Hire and develop the team members, and manage their performance actively
• Lead and mentor engineers and managers, focusing on impact, autonomy, and innovation.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices, especially in a microservices, cloud-native, CI/CD environment.
• Drive architectural decisions that align with Groupon’s transformation and cost optimization objectives.
• Manage team health and performance through coaching, feedback, and regular career development conversations.
• Lead with empathy, vision, and a strong bias for measurable results.

• 10+ years of overall industry experience with 4 years of leadership (hands-on engineering management) role in developing and supporting web applications, micro services in a distributed environment
• Experience with managing platform services, delivering projects in a dynamic environment
• Experience with managing high-performance individuals in different time zones.
• Good communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to deal…