Grow As an Engineer by Building Things That Matter

At Groupon, we spend our days developing tools that help small businesses thrive in their local communities. We’re a technology company building products that positively impact the lives of the 49.1MM people and Groupon merchants that use them every single day. With thousands of employees across 15 countries, we operate at a global scale but still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking, and celebrates successes. 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 work on the Groupon platform to improve performance and make our customers’ and small business’ lives easier and happier. We work in small, self-managing, collaborative and agile teams to implement stuff quickly.

The newly formed Developer Tools team is charged with running, supporting and maintaining the performance engineering infrastructure and tooling at Groupon. We ensure that the entire Groupon system is resilient under peak load.

We are looking for an experienced SDE to help us build the tools to streamline regular performance analysis, validation, and monitoring. You will spend your time designing and implementing software to automate the following tasks:

• Production traffic pattern analysis

• Synthetic load data design

• Load generation

• Performance bottleneck identification

• Fully automated management of scheduled load runs

• Performance monitoring of Groupon applications and services.

In this role, you will interact with existing tools like Blazemeter, New Relic, Splunk, Hadoop & Kafka. You will get exposure to the entirety of the Groupon platform, build a strong understanding of how our systems work and your contributions will have a company-wide impact.  This is a fantastic opportunity to join a strong team, work on exciting technology and change the way Groupon builds software.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement performance infrastructure to safely execute load tests in production environments on a continuous basis.

• Design and implement automated traffic analysis and modeling using a variety of existing data systems.

• Drive initiatives across engineering teams with a focus on increasing site performance and stability.

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

Requirements:

• At least 7+ years experience in software development, experience building developer-facing tools will be a plus

• Excellent coding skills in one or more languages: Java, C#, Scala, C++, Python or Ruby

• Experience with Docker 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

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.