Architect - Merchant Centre

Company Overview

At Groupon, we are dedicated to recognizing and rewarding those who drive impactful change. We believe in making swift, impactful decisions without getting bogged down in endless meetings. Here, your advancement is based on your performance and contributions, not politics. We thrive on innovation, embracing cutting-edge technology to stay ahead of the curve.

If you're seeking a role where growth opportunities are limitless and your ability to deliver is truly valued, this is the place for you. Our culture is built on agility, transparency, and resilience. We prioritise quick decision-making, open and honest leadership, and merit-based advancement. We empower our teams to overcome obstacles and take full ownership of their work, driving real results.

Join us on our transformation journey! If you're ready to be part of a forward-thinking team that celebrates hard work and rewards success, we want to hear from you.

🚀Job Overview:

As an Architect for Groupon's Merchant Center, you will be responsible for designing and implementing the technical architecture that powers the platform used by merchants to manage their Groupon campaigns. Your primary focus will be on creating scalable, secure, and user-friendly systems that allow merchants to easily access tools for managing campaign, analytics, and customer engagement. You will collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to ensure that the architecture supports business goals while providing a seamless experience for merchants.

💪🏼Key Responsibilities:

• You will lead the design and implementation of systems within the Merchant Center organization

• With a deep understanding of our Merchant Center product, you will focus on solutions that come from better architecture, not just better code

• You will drive initiatives across engineering teams with a focus on increasing platform performance and stability

• You will work closely with other engineers within your group and across the product and engineering organization to identify problems and build effective technical solutions

• Mentor junior team members and encourage your peers to do the best possible work

• Advocate for and improve upon our tech culture principles

📖We’re excited about you if you have:

• At least 12+ years experience in software development, experience building great Merchant facing products

• Excellent coding skills in one or more languages: Node/Express JS,  React. js, Java

• Experience with cloud platforms AWS and GCP desired

• Development experience with service-oriented architectures/microservices

• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Ability to work collaboratively through an agile development process that promotes constant team communication

🌍Our development ecosystem:

• Java, Ruby on Rails, Spring

• Node/Express JS,  React. js, React Native

• MySQL/PostgreSQL

• Redis / Memcache

• Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana,

• Wavefront, OpsGenie

• RESTful API design

• Asynchronous messaging / pub-sub 

• Deployment to cloud

• Jenkins CICD, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Cloud, GCP

• GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, Asana

🏆We value engineers who are:

• Customer-focused: We believe that doing what’s right for the customer is ultimately what will drive our business forward.

• Obsessed with Quality: Your Production code Just Works & scales linearly

• Team players. You believe that more can be achieved together. You listen to feedback and also provide supportive feedback to help others grow/improve.

• Fast learners: We are willing to disrupt our existing business to trial new products and solutions. You love learning how to use new technologies and then rapidly apply them to new problems.

• Pragmatic: We do things quickly to learn what our customers desire. You know when it’s appropriate to take shortcuts that don’t sacrifice quality or maintainability.

• Owners: Engineers at Groupon know how to positively impact the business.

• Able to travel periodically internationally.