Staff Engineer - Backend

About Grubhub

At Grubhub, we champion restaurants from coast to coast. Restaurants sit at the heart of communities. It’s our mission to strengthen their roots, deepen their connections, and increase the positive impact they have on people and society.

Grubhub, part of Wonder, delivers the best local, authentic cuisine right to diners’ doors—and new customers and billions in revenue to local businesses. Featuring over 375,000 merchants in over 4,000 cities nationwide, our innovative technology, user-friendly platforms, and streamlined delivery capabilities have made us an industry leader in the world of online food ordering. Since we opened our doors in 2004, Grubhub has been opening doors all across the country.

Bakery doors in Hyde Park, jibarito joint doors in Queens, and doors of opportunity all across the country. Join our team and help us open more.

About the team

This team will own the Catalog and Merchant platforms — the core domain models and services that power our merchant subsystem and drive discovery across the diner experience.

The Impact You Will Make: You’ll gain expertise in your domain and build highly scalable & reliable additions to our platform You’ll be accountable for delivery, deployment, maintenance, and monitoring the performance of your applications and the platform as a whole You’ll evaluate tools, technologies, frameworks, and vendors for the platform along with other senior team members You’ll write performant and concise code to meet the defined standards here at GrubHub, review the code of peers, and ensure security and scalability of the features you work on You’ll help to create the backlog of tech debt and features, suggesting areas for improvement and enhancement You’ll actively work with other team members in the domain and be a team player What You Bring to the Table: 8+ years of relevant software development industry experience in a fast-paced tech environment.

Experience building services that enable high-scale, performant client applications (both server and UI). Strong coding abilities (Java, Kotlin, Scala / Python / C++ or equivalent) and experience with architectural patterns of large application-driven products. Demonstrated hands-on expertise in architecting, building, and maintaining highly available services in a large service-oriented architecture.

Experience in partnering with other leaders in setting product strategy. Experience building versioned, public APIs consumed by external applications. Shipped several large scale projects with multiple dependencies across teams.

Technical leadership and strong communication skills with ability to lead other experienced engineers. Base Salary: NYC: $240,000 - $249,500 Wonder uses geographic-specific salary structures, which means the salary offered may vary depending on where the job is located. The final salary offer will take into account various factors, such as the candidate's skills, education, training, credentials, and experience.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary package including equity and 401K. Additionally, we provide multiple medical, dental, and vision plans to meet all of our employees' needs as well as many benefits and perks that are not listed. A Final Note At Wonder, we believe that in order to build the best team, we must hire using an objective lens.

We are committed to fair hiring practices where we hire people for their potential and advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion. As such, we do not discriminate or make decisions based on your race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. If you have a disability, please let your recruiter know how we can make your interview process work best for you.

We look forward to hearing from you! We'll contact you via email or text to schedule interviews and share information about your candidacy. Join Our Team At Grubhub, we champion restaurants from coast to coast.

Restaurants sit at the heart of communities. It’s our mission to strengthen their roots, deepen their connections, and increase the positive impact they have on people and society. Grubhub, part of Wonder, delivers the best local, authentic cuisine right to diners’ doors—and new customers and billions in revenue to local businesses.

Featuring over hundreds of thousands of merchants in over 4,000 cities nationwide, our innovative technology, user-friendly platforms, and streamlined delivery capabilities have made us an industry leader in the world of online food ordering. Since we opened our doors in 2004, Grubhub has been opening doors all across the country. Bakery doors in Hyde Park, jibarito joint doors in Queens, and doors of opportunity all across the country.

Join our team and help us open more.