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Manager, Engineering

Grubhub

Grubhub

Software Engineering
New York, NY, USA · New York, NY, USA
USD 224,500-249,500 / year
Posted on Sep 19, 2025

Why Work For Us

Grubhub, part of Wonder Group Inc, is all about connecting hungry diners with our network of over 375,000 merchants nationwide. Innovative technology, user-friendly platforms and streamlined delivery capabilities set us apart and make us an industry leader in the world of online food ordering. When you join our team, you become part of a community that works together to innovate, solve problems, grow, work hard and have a ton of fun in the process!

About the Opportunity

We’re looking for someone to join the Merchant engineering team as an Engineering Manager who will be responsible for owning and building Data Pipelines and tooling to support Merchant identification and targeting as well as all Merchant facing reporting and analytics. This is an opportunity to shape the future of the merchant supply on the Grubhub platform as well as helping them grow their businesses once partnered.

You will be responsible for a team that will define, architect, build, maintain, and scale new and innovative features for our merchants. Our Engineering Managers wear a lot of hats – you will work with other technology teams, product managers, and business stakeholders to build complex and impactful solutions.

The Impact You Will Make

  • Lead, inspire, and grow a team of data scientists tasked with researching, prototyping, and building statistical or machine learning models and leveraging emerging AI technologies when appropriate.

  • Craft a meaningful vision for the team, working in concert with product managers and other multi-location technology teams to create roadmaps, lead architecture vision, and collaborate on cross-functional initiatives. Guide the team as you build out features that enable the best merchants on our platform.

  • Run your team's agile ceremonies. Positively influence the planning, refinement, and execution of your team’s goals in a rapid development environment.

  • Build a diverse team while fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment.

  • Build and utilize metrics to analyze features as they are deployed to Production to ensure they are functioning as expected and properly alerting when necessary.

  • Contribute to the adoption of strong software architecture, development best practices, and new technologies.

What You Bring to the Table

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Programming or Engineering related field or equivalent practical experience

  • 6+ years software engineering experience including 2+ years of management experience

  • Experience managing a team of Engineers and providing mentorship and coaching on career growth.

  • Strong proficiency in Python, Azkaban, and Apache Spark. Java, Kotlin, and microservice architecture experience is helpful.

  • Strong understanding of AWS offerings like S3, EC2, and Lambdas.

  • Experience with Starburst clusters is a plus.

  • Ability to debug production issues with observability and logging tools.

  • Pattern of building, owning, and maintaining scalable and reusable services, features, and components

  • Experience prioritizing and improving test coverage while designing for testability

  • Track record of advocating for the adoption of strong software architecture, development best practices, and new technologies

  • Experience being self-directed and responsible for deliverables

  • Familiar with Agile methodologies

  • You will work with your team to monitor and ensure the health of the platform, which includes a 24/7 hour on-call rotation, to ensure a great customer experience

  • And you exemplify the behaviors we expect of all leaders in our engineering organization:

    • Build and enable great teams - Leaders recruit, inspire, grow and empower amazing people and teams. They remove blockers, coach, and build mechanisms to enable scale, efficiency, and quality.

    • We recognize, celebrate, and double down on success - Our employees are multi-faceted, recognizing their skills and interests will keep our people engaged and motivated.

    • Know what you’re talking about - We dive deep, understanding the subject matter at the absolute not the abstract level. We build trust because we understand and focus on the details. You have shown the ability to gather the data required to make your decisions.

    • High Bar - Leaders set the bar high, push the boundaries, and hold themselves and teams accountable.

    • Innovative - Leaders think long-term and platform-wide, inventing their way around constraints to deliver breakthrough solutions, not settling for the status quo.

    • Make Informed Decisions - We favor data-driven, objective decisions. Never myopic or short sighted, always focused on what’s right for Grubhub. We are also willing to revisit the decision when the world changes.

    • Ownership - Leaders own problems, decisions, and messages. We look for people to broaden their responsibility and accountability beyond the things they directly own or have direct influence over.

    • Humble and self-critical - Leaders always learn, admit mistakes, and strive to improve.

    • Trust and respect - Leaders earn trust through the consistency, transparency, and fairness of their actions. We always treat others with respect.

    • Get stuff done - Leaders focus on results. They simplify complexity, executing with a sense of urgency and purpose.

    • Communicates Effectively - Listen actively, stay engaged in conversation, be genuine & authentic, understand impact of words and nonverbal cues.

Base Salary

New York: $249,500

Illinois: $224,500

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.

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And Of Course, Perks!

  • Flexible PTO / PTO. Grubhub employees enjoy a generous amount of time to recharge.

  • Health and Wellness. Excellent medical, dental and vision benefits, 401k, employee network groups and paid parental leave are just a few of our programs to support your overall well-being.

  • Free Meals. Our employees get a weekly Grubhub credit to enjoy.

  • Social Impact. At Grubhub we believe in giving back through programs like the Grubhub Community Fund. Employees are also given paid time off each year to support the causes that are important to them.

Grubhub is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity and encourage a workplace that is just as diverse as the customers we serve. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. If you’re applying for a job in the U.S. and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an email to TalentAcquisition@grubhub.com and let us know the nature of your request and contact information. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.

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