Senior Software Engineer

About The Opportunity

We’re all about connecting hungry diners with our network of over 300,000 restaurants nationwide. Innovative technology, user-friendly platforms and streamlined delivery capabilities set us apart and make us an industry leader in the world of online food ordering. When you join our team, you become part of a community that works together to innovate, solve problems, grow, work hard and have a ton of fun in the process!

The Impact You Will Make

• The Menu team is responsible for building features that enable our customers to navigate the restaurants’ and merchants’ menus and catalogs, find their preferred choices, and add them to their carts. We work with product managers, data analysts, and data scientists to help optimize the menu experience for our Diners. We are continuously evolving and extending our platform by being KPI and data-driven. We build features at a large scale that are observable and autonomous. This way, we deliver the best-in-class search experience to our Diners by giving them the most value as they order on our platform.
• Design, implement, deliver, and test features in our application while understanding our products from a technical and business perspective.
• Communicate with designers, product owners, and other engineers to create working software based on an understanding of business and technical priorities.
• Creatively solve complex technical problems for our Grubhub and Seamless brands.
• Actively contribute to the adoption of strong software architecture, development of best practices, and new technologies. We are always improving the process of building software; we’ll need your help to do that.
• Take technical responsibility for a family of systems - build new services and functionality, manage technical debt, look for opportunities for platform improvement, and work with system engineers to increase the scale at which our production systems will operate while performing at their peak.
• Actively contribute to adopting strong software architecture, software development lifecycle best practices, and new technologies. Be a leader within your team and the organization .
  
  

What You Bring To The Table

• 5+ years of experience in web development.
• 2+ years of practical experience in React Web product development.
• Experience with JavaScript, Typescript, React, Node, Redux, CSS, and git.
• Experience working closely with multiple stakeholders from product, design, and other engineering teams.
• Deep understanding of software development best practices and design patterns, SRP, testing pyramids, and CI/CD.
• Not afraid to jump into a task with zero knowledge and figure out how something works.
• A history of building software with teams—you enjoy brainstorming solutions and communicating technical ideas and issues with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• An understanding of best practices for networking, concurrency, and UI development.
• An ability to not just complete the task but teach others to do this as well.
• Experience and a good understanding of app performance and debugging techniques.
• Strong computer science fundamentals from a college degree in Computer Science, a related field of study, or equivalent experience.
  
  

Familiarity with Agile methodologies .