Software Development Engineer Iii - Data Platform Job in Groupon

Take care of petabytes of data to help local businesses grow

Groupons mission is to become the daily habit in local commerce and fulfill our purpose of building strong communities through fast-growing small businesses by connecting people to a dynamic, global marketplace for local services, experiences and goods. In the process, were positively impacting the lives of millions of customers and merchants globally. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. If you want to take more ownership of your career, then you're ready to be part of Groupon.

As a global company that works with both local businesses and consumers, Groupon has a wealth of data, which is stored and processed on our ever-evolving data platform. As a Data Engineer, you will handle the full development life-cycle of Groupon data applications. Our Data Engineers collaborate with data scientists, product managers and other engineering teams to design and build streaming and batch data applications for the business to enable consistently informed management decisions and also provide customers and merchants with personalized experience.

We're a "best of both worlds" kind of company. We're big enough to have resources and scale, but small enough that a single person has a surprising amount of autonomy and can make a significant impact. We're curious, fun, a little intense, and kind of passionate about helping local businesses thrive. Does that sound like a compelling place to work?

Youll spend time on the following:

• Work with data scientists, analytics experts and product managers to strive for greater functionality in our data systems.
• Analyze & translate functional specifications & change requests into technical designs.
• Design, develop, and implement streaming and near-real time data pipelines that feed systems that are the operational backbone of our business.
• Develop scalable, maintainable and reusable code with unit tests and integration testing
• Ensure accuracy & integrity of data & applications through analysis, coding, writing clear documentation and problem resolution.
• Troubleshoot and remediate issues impacting data pipelines.
• Keep tabs on the tools, techniques and components being used in the industry through research and apply this knowledge to the system(s) being developed.
• Mentoring junior engineers

Were excited about you if you have:

• Hands-on experience with all aspects of designing, developing, testing and implementing streaming, near real time and batch data pipelines
• Expertise in functional and object oriented programming paradigms.
• Hands on experience on Scala, Java
• Experience working with distributed computing frameworks, preferably Spark
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing using Kafka/ Kinesis, and highly scalable big data stores
• Good coding skills in at least one modern scripting language, preferably Python
• Experience working on MPP systems
• Experience and working knowledge of Lambda and Kappa architecture in AWS cloud environment
• Solid understanding of SDLC, software standard methodologies and development methodologies
• Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical, and problem solving skills.
• Experience working with big data tools such as Kafka, Hadoop, hive, Hbase etc. a big plus.
• Experience with data warehousing and star-schema (dimensional) data models and strong hands-on SQL knowledge a big plus
• Experience working with Teradata, Teradata Vantage is a plus.

Groupons purpose is to build strong communities through thriving small businesses. To learn more about the worlds largest local ecommerce marketplace, . Plus, be sure to that shape our culture, guide our strategy and make our company a great place to work. And just dont take our word for it. and learn more about our . If all of this sounds like something thats a great fit for you, then click apply and lets see where this takes us.

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