Engineering Manager II - Backend Core Apps

Early Applicant

Exp: 4-10 Years

Job Description

You ll spend time on the following:

You will take full ownership of the project deliveries of our global platform applications and ensure that we deliver the best outcome for our customers
You will collaborate within the team and outside teams in the organizations to ensure that required business features, high performance and cost effective solution are implemented effectively
Drive technical discussion and decisions within the team s scope, participate in design and code reviews
Hire and develop the team members and manage their performance actively
You will own multiple projects and teams may including other managers
You will foster culture of collaboration, ownership and accountability
You will evangelize the best practices for agile development practices
You will make process improvements to ensure alignment with company values and optimize the resources

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 overall industry experience with 4 years of leadership (management) role in developing and supporting web applications, micro services in distributed environment
Experience with managing platform services, delivering projects in dynamic environment
Experience with managing high performance individuals in different timezones
Good communication and collaboration skills and ability to deal with ambiguity
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 micro services, relational databases (MySQL or Postgres), ORMs, distributed cache
Exposure to asynchronous messaging platforms like ActiveMQ, Kafka

We value leaders who are:

Customer-focused: We believe that doing what s right for the customer is ultimately what will drive our business forward.
Owners: Engineers/Leaders at Groupon know how to positively impact the business.
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.