Lead Software Engineer

Grubhub is the nation's leading online and mobile food ordering company dedicated to connecting hungry diners with local takeout restaurants. The company’s online and mobile ordering platforms allow diners to order directly from more than 45,000 takeout restaurants in over 1,100 U.S. cities and London. Every order is supported by the company’s 24/7 customer service teams. Grubhub has offices in Chicago, New York and London.

GrubHub Holdings Inc. is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to provide technical and architectural leadership for multiple development teams as they conceptualize, design, build, and deploy to the field new and innovative products for our restaurant partners, as well as how those products fit into the big picture of Grubhub. Our Lead Engineers wear a lot of hats - everything from hands-on coding to mentoring developers to working with product to formulate new products to guiding our system architecture. We have high standards for code quality, unit testing, and intelligent architecture. We enjoy implementing new ideas and contributing directly to the growth of the business.

• Architect, implement and test technology solutions at GrubHub
• Motivate and advise technical solutions across multiple cross functional teams
• Take technical responsibility for a family of systems - manage technical debt, be on the lookout for opportunities for improvement, and work with system engineers to keep our production systems scaling and performing wickedly fast
• Actively contribute to the adoption of software architecture, best practices, and technologies. We are always improving the process of building software, we need you to help contribute
• Participate in future product direction
• Act as technical voice for the restaurant technology group
• Encourage continuous delivery and an experimentation-centered development process

• Masterful understanding of Java (7-10 years experience)
• Masterful understanding of unit testing, version control, and front end integration
• Must be genuinely awesome

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• Experience with mobile technologies is a plus