Software Engineer

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.

Groupon is an experiences 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. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success.

Groupon, Inc. is looking for a Software Engineer to join our team in Chicago, IL.

We're a "best of both worlds" kind of company. We're big enough to have resources and scale, but small enough that a single person has a surprising amount of autonomy and can make a meaningful impact. We're curious, fun, a little intense, and kind of obsessed with helping local businesses thrive. Does that sound like a compelling place to work?

How you'll spend your day:

• You will design and implement scalable distributed applications and Big Data pipelines that solve a wide range of business critical use cases;
• design and optimize data modeling for a given business requirement;
• develop the code and its deployment (quality code, abide to coding principles, ownership of the code);
• develop and follow standards and best practices throughout the lifecycle of the project;
• keep update with the latest technologies trend and various cloud technologies and its infrastructure;
• collaborate with the data team, Infrastructure Engineers and Data Scientists to recognize and help adopt best practices in data gathering and transforming big data;
• interface directly with Business Stakeholders, gather requirements and own automated end-to-end data engineering solutions.
• Up to 75% remote work allowed. Must live within normal commuting distance of the worksite.

We’re excited about you if you have the following requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Telecommunication Engineering, Information Technologies, Electrical Engineering or related field plus 5 years related experience.
• Any level of experience with design and develop production ready solutions using big data technologies including pyspark, Hadoop, S3, Hive, Python, Kafka, Airflow, GCP tools, cloud services/open source and languages including SQL, Scala, Shell and python to implement custom ETL orchestrations with ensured accuracy;
• Any level of experience with design and implement business analytics solutions such as modeling and analytical processing that gives exposure to wide functional dataset and enables actionable insights via collaboration with business to convert them into technical design using technologies such as LucidChart, Tableau and Smartsheet;
• Any level of experience with design data lifecycle management such as clickstream and traffic data using in house tools and technologies with Spark, Scala, BigData, Teradata and MySQL within large-scale data-warehouse including optimizations for performance and scalability;
• Any level of experience with mentor and lead efforts for effective Standards and Best Practices on ETL implementation, data governance across datamarts and tools including ZombieRunner and Salesforce, DealFactory or Zendesk.

Full time. $147,472 – $150,700 per year. Competitive compensation and benefits.

Groupon is an AI-First Company
We’re committed to building smarter, faster, and more innovative ways of working—and AI plays a key role in how we get there. We encourage candidates to leverage AI tools during the hiring process where it adds value, and we’re always keen to hear how technology improves the way you work. If you’re passionate about AI or curious to explore how it can elevate your role—you’ll be right at home here.

Groupon’s purpose is to build strong communities through thriving small businesses. To learn more about the world’s largest local e-commerce 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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