Software Engineer II; Backend

Software Engineer II (Backend)### Software Engineer II (Backend)
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** About Grubhub
** At Grubhub, we believe food is more than just a meal:
It’s a source of discovery, connection, and pure enjoyment. There’s a time and place for every type of dish, from hidden neighborhood gems to tried-and-true favorites, and we exist to connect people with the food they love in all the ways they like to dig in. We’ve been at it since 2004, but now, as part of Wonder, Grubhub is operating with a renewed sense of momentum and the high-velocity energy of a powerhouse startup.  

As a leading U.S. ordering and delivery marketplace, we feature over 415,000 merchants in more than 4,000 cities, creating the ultimate food experience by elevating online ordering through innovative restaurant technology, easy-to-use platforms, and an improved delivery experience. We are constantly finding new ways to innovate—from integrated grocery delivery with groceries powered by Instacart to exclusive loyalty programs. Join our team, based out of New York City and Chicago, and help us give our diners the exceptional value they deserve.

** 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  New York: $139,500- $158,000  Wonder uses geographic-specific salary structures, which means the salary offered…