Frontend Engineering Manager, Web - Branded Channel
About The Opportunity
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!
We're looking for someone to join our Branded Channel web team as an Engineering Manager who will be responsible for the web experience of our GH Direct product offering. GH Direct is a commission-free ordering website customized for each restaurant, with its logo, photos, and menu backed with detailed customer data and loyalty tools. You will be responsible for defining, designing, building, maintaining, and scaling new and innovative features. We aim to be a restaurant's preferred partner for all of their online ordering, so we are looking to continuously improve and provide better value to our restaurant partners. Our Engineering Managers wear a lot of hats - you will work with other technology teams, product managers, product designers, and business stakeholders to build a frictionless branded online ordering experience used by restaurants all over the country.
The Impact You Will Make
- Lead and coach a team of senior and junior engineers tasked with delivering performant, flexible, and scalable features to Grubhub restaurants and their diners.
- Craft a meaningful vision for the team, working in concert with product managers and other multi-location technology teams. Guide the team as you build out features that impact both diners and restaurants.
- Work with product and business leaders to identify the roadmap and build deliverables and timelines.
- 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 experience
- 7+ years software engineering experience including 2+ years of leadership experience
- Experience managing a team of Engineers and providing mentorship and coaching on career growth. Experience with entry-level engineers is a plus.
- Experience architecting and developing scalable frontend applications. Experience in eCommerce is a plus.
- Experience in React & Redux, or other scalable Javascript frameworks
- Automated testing experience applicable for frontend applications (Jest, Jasmine, Selenium, Cypress, or the like)
- Experience developing in Ruby on Rails or similar scaffolding frameworks is a plus
- And you exemplify the behaviors we strive to achieve as leaders and use as a guide to measure our performance. These behaviors are a practical manifestation of our Grubhub values:
- 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.
- 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.
And Of Course, Perks!
- Flexible PTO/PTO. Grubhub employees enjoy a generous amount of time to recharge.
- Health and Wellness. Excellent medical benefits, employee network groups and paid parental leave are just a few of our programs to support your overall well-being.
- Learning and Career Growth. Your personal and professional development is a priority at Grubhub. We empower you to be a leader and grow your career through training, coaching and mentorship opportunities.
- MealPerks. Get meals on us! Our employees get a weekly Grubhub credit to enjoy and support local restaurants.
- Fun. Every Grubhub office has an employee-led Culture Crew that connects people through fun, meaningful events and initiatives like Wellness Wednesdays, Slack competitions and virtual happy hours!
- Social Impact. At Grubhub we believe in giving back through programs like the Grubhub Community Relief Fund and donating $1 million to the Equal Justice Initiative in 2020. Employees are also given paid time off each year to support the causes that are important to them.
- COVID-19 Response. All of our employees are currently working from home and will be for the foreseeable future. We look forward to seeing everyone in-office when it's safe to return.
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 [email protected] 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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