Job Description

Become a better developer by building things that help local businesses around the world thrive.
Are you a passionate, energetic technology enthusiast eager to work at a rapid pace with the flexibility to work across a broad tech stack?
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. 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.
The Campaign Manager team under Supply works on building and enhancing the self-service tools that are used by Merchants to create and edit their campaigns on Groupon. We are looking for a software engineer to join our team to support and evolve the design, implementation, and operational support of internal systems that span the business side and engineering departments.
Our development ecosystem:• Languages: Java, J2EE
• Frontend: Node/React JS
• MySQL/PostgreSQL
• Redis / Memcache
• ELK stack / ElasticSearch
• RESTful API design
• Asynchronous messaging / Pub-Sub frameworks
• Jenkins CICD, Docker, K8S, AWS cloud, Wavefront (metrics)
• GitHub, JIRA, Confluence


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 Merchant - Campaign Manager 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.
• Drive the discussion and decisions on technical topics related to the team's scope.


We're excited about you if you have:• BE/BTech or ME/MTech degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering from a recognised institute
• 10+ 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 or C++
• 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 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 also 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.

•Beware of Fraudulent Offers We would like to bring to your notice that Groupon follows a merit-based employee recruitment practice with extensive screening steps. Groupon does not charge/accept any amount or security deposit from job seekers during the recruitment process. It was observed that there has been an increase in recruitment fraud involving scammers who post fraudulent job openings, or who contact job-seekers with fake job offers. These individuals sometimes even conduct fraudulent interviews with an attempt to obtain personal information or money from the applicants. We have also noticed that certain individuals claiming to be from the Groupon Talent Acquisition function are contacting prospective candidates pretending to represent Groupon with job offers. In case you or any candidate receives any unsolicited or fraudulent communication regarding a job offer or an interview call against payment of money, please stay alert and recognize it as a scam. We are not liable for any loss or damage incurred as a result of dealing with such entities. To prevent falling victim to the same, please visit• •grouponcareers.com• •to verify the job opening. All our genuine job openings are posted on the official Groupon careers website.•
Groupon's purpose is to build strong communities through thriving small businesses. To learn more about the world's largest local ecommerce marketplace. You can also find out more about us in the latest Groupon news as well as learning about our DEI approach. If all of this sounds like something that's a great fit for you, and join us on a mission to become the ultimate destination for local experiences and services.
Beware of Recruitment Fraud: Groupon follows a merit-based recruitment process without charging job seekers any fees. We've noticed an increase in recruitment fraud, including fake job postings and fraudulent interviews and job offers aimed at stealing personal information or money. Be cautious of individuals falsely representing Groupon's Talent Acquisition team with fake job offers. If you encounter any suspicious job offers or interview calls demanding money, recognize these as scams. Groupon is not responsible for losses from such dealings. For legitimate job openings, always check our official careers website at grouponcareers.com.