Senior Software Engineer; Backend

Position: Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
Location: New York

## Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
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New York, NY:
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** The Impact You Will Make
*** You’ll gain expertise in your domain and build highly scalable & reliable additions to our platform
* You’ll be accountable for delivery, deployment, maintenance, and monitoring the performance of your applications and the platform as a whole
* You’ll evaluate tools, technologies, frameworks, and vendors for the platform along with other senior team members
* You’ll write performant and concise code to meet the defined standards here at Grub Hub, review the code of peers, and ensure security and scalability of the features you work on
* You’ll help to create the backlog of tech debt and features, suggesting areas for improvement and enhancement
* You’ll actively work with other team members in the domain and be a team player  
** What You Bring to the Table
*** Bachelor’s Degree in a science, programming or engineering related field
* 5+ years experience building highly-scalable consumer-facing applications (e-commerce preferred)
* Experience with Java or other object-oriented languages
* Experience architecting, designing, and developing testable, fault tolerant, and performant software with emphasis on future evolution
* Experience with complex systems composed of multiple components spread across the network
* AWS experience, or similar cloud based offerings
* Automated testing experience applicable for services (junit/testing, mockito + jmeter/ gatling.io)
* Strong fundamentals (data structures, algorithms)
* Experience developing highly-available distributed systems (4x9’s uptime etc.)
* Building observability as part of the application
* Experience modeling system resource requirements as system load changes
* Interest in working for a fast paced, product oriented tech company
* Distributed database experience with Cassandra or similar No

SQL database experience preferred
* Docker, or similar containerized solutions
* CI / CD tools experience like Gradle, Jenkins, Spinnaker, or similar technologies
* Experience leading as an individual contributor, i.e. time prioritization, self-management, and working within and across teams to drive results
* Dedication to improving the customer experience and designing systems to avoid poor customer experience during outages and guarantee the availability of services
* Passion for challenging the status quo, understanding new things, and solving problems in creative and unconventional ways
* A sense of accountability for developed software and ownership of upstream and downstream dependency