Working Devs

Description

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. With employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking, and celebrates success. Our culture encourages employees to embrace change, adapt to new circumstances, and find creative solutions to the challenges we face. Does that sound like a great way to grow your career? 

Let’s get into the details:

Merchant center team makes sure that Groupon merchants are able to login to their account and get details related to their campaign performance, voucher statistics, payment information and request help in case support is needed. We are constantly making improvements to our systems to make merchant center more efficient, user friendly and secure.

You’ll spend time on the following:

• You will develop merchant facing applications for the Groupon microservice ecosystem

• You will collaborate with teams in other organization to ensure that required business features and compliance rules are implemented effectively

• Managing the full software development lifecycle from technical design to development, testing and deployment

• Improving your and the team's skills through knowledge-sharing and hackathon

• Create and maintain documentation for your projects

• Mentor junior staff

• Drive the discussion and decisions of technical topics related to the team

We’re excited about you if you have:

• BE/BTech or ME/MTech degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field

• 3+ years of industry experience

• Excellent coding skills preferably using JavaScript

• Deep knowledge of web technologies such as HTML5, CSS (SCSS, LESS), JSON, Object-oriented JavaScript

• At least one full lifecycle web application built with React + Redux & Node JS

• Expertise in building scalable server applications and reusable modules in the Node eco-system

• Experience with build tools such as Ant, Ivy, Maven, Griddle

• Strong debugging skills

• Good communication and collaboration skills

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.

• Owners: Engineers at Groupon know how to positively impact the business.