About The Opportunity
We're all about connecting hungry diners with our network of over 300,000 restaurants nationwide. User-friendly platforms and streamlined delivery capabilities set us apart in the world of online food ordering. Grubhub is a place where authentically fun culture meets innovation and teamwork. We believe in empowering people and opening doors for new opportunities. If you're looking for a place that values relationships, embraces diverse ideas-all while having fun together-then Grubhub is the place for you!
As a Principal Engineer on our Checkout Platform team, you will build and maintain the platform of services responsible for taking and managing orders and the interactions between them. You'll be focused on the resiliency, scale, latency, throughput, and extensibility required to help Grubhub continue to meet demand. You will be a collaborator across the wider engineering department. Our Checkout systems are a mix of high scale and data integration. As such, our products require collaboration between engineers, decision scientists, data analysts, an operations team, and a product team that's thinking end-to-end.
The Impact You Will Make

• Provide input to shape the charter and structure of the checkout platform
• Help lead Grubhub's continued expansion into all aspects of our business including corporate, enterprise, campus, and in-store by further scaling our systems and teams
• Help improve and mature the 'crown jewel' checkout systems of Grubhub.
• Help extend the effectiveness of the current team through mentoring
• Build highly-scalable, world-class systems that solve difficult optimization and validation problems. Understand how to translate research into working software.
• Work with product and operations leaders to understand the needs of our business and our customers and provide solutions for those needs.
• Design extensible software architectures that allow GrubHub to be nimble and react to changes quickly.
• Design reliable software and processes that allow GrubHub to offer a high-quality experience. Deal with edge cases gracefully and put processes in place to ensure we do everything we can to provide a great experience for each customer.
• Contribute to the use of strong software architecture, development best practices, and new technologies, and pioneer within your team and the organization.
• Work with our SRE team to improve and evangelize Operational Excellence

What You Bring to the Table

• Degree in Computer Science and 10+ years experience building highly-scalable applications (eCommerce preferred)
• Experience devising, building, and releasing complex technical systems
• Direct experience with marketplaces, high throughput application, and/or event-driven architectures
• Collaborate with C-level executives and across broad organizations including product, operations, finance, and care
• Experience with direct management of 3+ senior technical team members
• Demonstrated experience launching new products in high growth markets
• Comfort with data, including the ability to use data to analyze and monitor product health
• Experience managing trade offs and evaluating opportunistic new ideas with stakeholders
• Experience with real-time platforms
• Familiar with Agile methodologies
• Expertise in Java, C#, C++, Go, or a similar modern object-oriented language
• Expertise architecting, designing, and developing testable, fault-tolerant, and performant software
• AWS experience, or similar cloud-based offerings with multi-region application design experience
• Automated testing experience applicable for services (Junit/testing, Mockito + Jmeter/Gatling.io)
• Familiarity with databases (Cassandra/MongoDB/CouchDB), distributed or relational databases is desired
• Expertise with non-blocking, multi-threaded applications

And Of Course, Perks!

• Flexible PTO / PTO . Grubhub employees enjoy a generous amount of time to recharge.
• Health and Wellness. Excellent medical, dental and vision benefits, 401k matching, employee network groups and paid parental leave are just a few of our programs to support your overall well-being.
• Compensation. You'll receive a great compensation package with eligibility for generous incentives, bonuses, commission, or RSUs (role-specific).
• Free Meals . Our employees get a weekly Grubhub credit to enjoy and support local restaurants.
• Social Impact. We believe in giving back through programs like the Grubhub Community Relief Fund, and provide our employees opportunities to support causes that are important to them.