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.

Our development ecosystem:

• Languages: Java, Ruby
• Vertx.io, Dropwizard, RxJava
• MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis
• Elastic search
• REST/JSON
• AWS, GCP
• Docker, Kubernetes
• GitHub
• JIRA

You’ll spend time on the following:

• You will take full ownership of the technical aspects of our global technology infrastructure, ensuring that the platform is being used to its fullest potential through designing and building applications around our customer’s needs.
• You will Design/Develop/Migrate/Maintain a myriad of applications and services for AWS Cloud & Kubernetes environment.
• You will collaborate within the team and outside teams in the organizations to ensure that required business features, high performance, and cost-effective solutions are implemented effectively.
• Build service artifacts, estimate and plan for deployment, and coordinate timelines and tasks with project management and teams.
• Improve service stability and performance by identifying critical service-specific metrics, setting meaningful alerting thresholds, and automating alerting responses

We’re excited about you if you have:

• BE/BTech or ME/MTech degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering from a recognised institute
• 3+ years of industry experience in developing and supporting web applications, and microservices, and troubleshooting internal and external requests /bug reports in a distributed environment.
• Strong coding skills in one or more object-oriented programming languages like Java
• Strong problem-solving, debugging skills, data structure, and algorithms fundamentals.
• Must have experience with REST API-based development of microservices, relational databases (MySQL or Postgres), ORMs
• Exposure to asynchronous messaging platforms like ActiveMQ, and Kafka is a plus.
• Good communication and collaboration skills and ability to deal with ambiguity.

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 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.