Software Developer

Job Description

Software Developer (Data & Discovery)

Groupon’s mission is to become the daily habit in local commerce and fulfil our purpose of building strong communities through thriving small businesses by connecting people to a vibrant, global marketplace for local services, experiences, and goods. In the process, we’re positively impacting the lives of millions of customers and merchants globally. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. If you want to take more ownership of your career, then you're ready to be part of Groupon.

Are you a passionate, energetic technology enthusiast eager to work at a rapid pace with the flexibility to work across a broad tech stack? Are you are a problem solver; someone who enjoys debugging code, resolving issues, and creating solutions for interesting problems?

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Data and Discovery organization. As a global company that works with both local businesses and consumers, Groupon has a wealth of data, which is stored and processed on our ever-evolving data platform. As a member of our team you will support and evolve the design, implementation, and operational support of internal systems that span both business and engineering departments. You will be working on significant data platform solutions with a high business impact by collaborating with Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Product Managers, and Software Engineers.

You’ll spend time on the followin g:

• You will contribute to the delivery of the design, development and maintenance of the Data Platform Solutions and Data Interfaces
• You will design and implement RESTful APIs
• You will build, install and configure open source projects
• You will build user interfaces and/or extend existing user interfaces
• You will be participating in code reviews at the team level and mentoring junior team members
• You will provide support for platform / application related issues; Triage and fix these issues reported by other teams to help with early resolution

We’re excited about you if you have:

• 3+ years of industry experience
• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Experience with one or more object-oriented programming language like Java or Ruby on Rails
• Recent coding experience in one of scripting languages like RxJava, Python etc
• Experience in developing APIs (REST API and their architecture)
• Clear understanding of testing methodologies, CI/CD and standard methodologies
• Experience in UI development, including Web Technologies (JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3) and Web frameworks (Angular, React etc) is a plus
• Cloud platforms experience is a plus (AWS)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills