Full Stack Software Engineer - Supply Intelligence
At Groupon, we're using global technology teams to bring back the excitement of local retails. Groupon is all about local experiences: local restaurants; local nightlife; local shopping. We spend our days developing tools, platforms and experiences that help small businesses thrive in their local communities. We might look like an ordinary ecommerce app, but under the surface we’re using cutting edge technology to build products that regularly positively impact the lives of over 50 million people and hundreds of thousands of small business owners.
The Supply Intelligence team connects our data science team to the business, to help build the broad and deep selection of deals on Groupon. As part of our team, you will help build the tools that use Groupon’s predictive modeling to optimize our sales process. We’re looking for a full-stack engineer to join our product-focused, eager and engaged team. If you are interested in working on an agile team that makes a huge business impact, this is it.
If you have ambition and drive and want to own your own road map in a company that knows how to scale, we want to talk to you.
We're looking for great technology developers to hack on a variety of products aimed at making customers’ and small business’ lives easier and happier. We work in small, self-managing, collaborative and agile teams, and team with product designers to implement stuff quickly.
Key Responsibilities
Work directly with the product manager and other engineers to build features that improve the effectiveness of our sales representatives
Be able to work mostly independently, actively seek feedback from users and product managers
Take ownership of an application’s features end-to-end. Be able to drive feature design, automated tests, code refactoring, all the way through delivery.
Be strong advocate of best design practices
Participate in a highly-collaborative engineering team; we are passionate about sharing ideas to constantly improve our work culture and the products we build.
Requirements
BS or MS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience of 4+ years in professional software development.
Experience with both front-end and backend development platforms
Javascript experience - especially using Ember, or Node is highly preferred.
Experience with Java, Clojure or Ruby is a plus
Experience with relational database systems such as Mysql and Postgres.
You're willing and excited to learn new technologies, including Java, Clojure, Ember.js
Nice to have: experience working with Hadoop, Teradata.
Must be able to work in an open environment at our Chicago Office.
Groupon provides a global marketplace where people can buy just about anything, anywhere, anytime. We’re enabling real-time commerce across an expanding range of categories including local businesses, travel destinations, consumer products, and live or lively events. At the same time, we are providing advertising options and tools that merchants can use to grow and manage their businesses. Culturally, we believe that great people make great companies and that starting with the customer and working backward moves us forward. Community matters to us on an internal, local and global scale—it’s fundamental to our company’s growth and to the well-being of the world at large. We also value self-awareness, candor, lunch and WiFi. If we match with you, please apply to join us.