Engineering Manager

Roles and responsibilities

As an Engineering Manager for Groupon's Merchant Center, you will lead a talented team focused on developing and optimizing the platform that powers merchant interactions with campaigns, analytics, and customer engagement. Your primary responsibility will be to design and deliver scalable, high-impact microservices that align with Groupon’s strategic goals, enhancing merchant success and satisfaction.

You’ll lead by example, mentoring engineers to foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement. By providing guidance on technical solutions and best practices, you will help the team build high-quality, reliable services that drive value for merchants and users alike. You’ll ensure that your engineers have the tools, resources, and support they need to thrive.

Your role will also involve cross-functional collaboration with Product, Commercial, and other teams to define, prioritize, and deliver features that meet business needs. You will work closely with stakeholders to ensure that the Travel roadmap is executed efficiently, meeting both technical and business objectives.

In addition to managing technical execution, you will oversee the ongoing delivery and operational health of services, ensuring high availability and performance. You’ll drive improvements in engineering processes, making sure the team continually refines its practices for greater productivity and quality.

Through effective leadership, you will empower your team to take ownership, innovate, and deliver solutions that elevate the Merchant Center and contribute to Groupon’s success.

Desired candidate profile

🏆We value Managers who have:

• B.E or higher degree in Computer Science with 8+ years of experience
• 2+ years of experience in leading a team of engineers.
• Experience building and growing a team of engineers.
• Experience designing and implementing large, scalable, distributed systems
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work with multiple languages Java, Node/Express JS, React. js etc.
• Backend experience with RESTful API and RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL etc.)
• Been a role model for engineers on the team, providing timely coaching and mentoring to all.
  

👌We’re excited about you if you have:

• Experience with managing platform services, delivering projects in dynamic environment
• You have been responsible for building and leading a high performance engineering team
• You are highly technical with a strong background in computer science. You have a track record of handling technical design and completing projects with high quality.
• Good communication and collaboration skills and ability to deal with ambiguity
• You have experience motivating teams towards delivering business results in a dynamic agile environment.
• You are comfortable operating at leadership level as well as getting your hands dirty.
• You have experience in related domains within e-commerce.
• You have made decisions that impact technical design, development and planning for one or more projects/programs that impact multiple teams or functions.
• You frequently interact with multiple cross-functional teams and lead a cooperative effort to drive key technical projects.