Why Work For Us

Grubhub is a place where authentically fun culture meets innovation and teamwork. We believe in empowering people and opening doors for new opportunities. If you’re looking for a place that values strong relationships, embraces diverse ideas–all while having fun together–Grubhub is the place for you!

Our team creates food delivery B2B2C products for corporate and consumers settings. We work closely with BE, Devops, Mobile and Web dev Teams to build end to end high scalability solutions for tens of millions of users across the US. Our products include food delivery for Hotels, Colleges, Hospitals, Corporate Headquarters and other locations.

As a Lead Backend Engineer at Grubhub, you’ll design and build scalable BE solutions and infrastructure for our ordering experience and help create experiments to validate new products. You will work closely with Senior and Staff+ engineers globally (Israel, US and Romania) and build low latency, high availability and throughput systems to deliver world class user experiences.

We are looking for an experienced engineer that can build a product end to end, likes working with product teams, understands their needs and has an impact on the design and execution of products. If you want to solve interesting engineering problems and build very high scale systems, Grubhub is the perfect place for you.

The Impact You Will Make:

• Build and design high performance, low latency and high throughput BE systems.
• Raise the bar of the engineering org by thinking and implementing improvements to our engineering systems and processes.
• Work with engineering leadership to plan future architecture and BE solutions to meet our demanding high traffic requirements.
• Guide other engineers on best practices and modern technologies.
• Use data to drive business, product and engineering decisions.
• Work with the product, design and mobile teams to help define the user experience and user flow, bridging the gap between design and technical implementation.

What you Bring to the Table:

• 5+ years of experience building highly-scalable BE systems for interactive mobile and web applications.
• Expert knowledge in Java/Kotlin is a must.
• Python knowledge is a bonus.
• Experienced with building and managing complex distributed microservices in the cloud (AWS preferred or GCP/Azure/Etc).
• Experienced with large scale datastores such as Cassandra, Redis and modern RDBMS/NoSQL DBs such as MySQL, PostgreSQL & MongoDB is a plus.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, New Relic/Datadog, Splunk and modern CI/CD is a plus.
• Experience of advocating for the adoption of strong software architecture, development of best practices, and new technologies.
• Demonstrated ability in guiding other engineers in varying levels to accomplish large projects

Benefits & Perks:

• Hybrid in office 2 days per week
• Every other Sunday off
• Annual learning budget for personal development
• 20 day of paid time off per year
• Private health insurance at company's expense
• Food stiped for days in office