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# Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

- **Company:** Wonder Indeed
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $176,000.0 - $183,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, Continuous Integration, Data Structures, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Gradle, Junit, NoSQL, Object-Oriented Software Development, Spinnaker, Backend, Cassandra, Docker, Jenkins
- **Published:** October 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=3e52d1a02f56e81f

## About the Role

* Bachelor's Degree in a science, programming or engineering related field
 * 5+ years experience building highly-scalable consumer-facing applications (e-commerce preferred)
 * Experience with Java or other object-oriented languages
 * Experience architecting, designing, and developing testable, fault tolerant, and performant software with emphasis on future evolution
 * Experience with complex systems composed of multiple components spread across the network
 * AWS experience, or similar cloud based offerings
 * Automated testing experience applicable for services (junit/testing, mockito + jmeter/ gatling.io)
 * Strong fundamentals (data structures, algorithms)
 * Experience developing highly-available distributed systems (4x9's uptime etc.)
 * Building observability as part of the application
 * Experience modeling system resource requirements as system load changes
 * Interest in working for a fast paced, product oriented tech company
 * Distributed database experience with Cassandra or similar NoSQL database experience preferred
 * Docker, or similar containerized solutions
 * CI / CD tools experience like Gradle, Jenkins, Spinnaker, or similar technologies
 * Experience leading as an individual contributor, i.e. time prioritization, self-management, and working within and across teams to drive results
 * Dedication to improving the customer experience and designing systems to avoid poor customer experience during outages and guarantee the availability of services
 * Passion for challenging the status quo, understanding new things, and solving problems in creative and unconventional ways
 * A sense of accountability for developed software and ownership of upstream and downstream dependency

## Description

* You'll gain expertise in your domain and build highly scalable & reliable additions to our platform
 * You'll be accountable for delivery, deployment, maintenance, and monitoring the performance of your applications and the platform as a whole
 * You'll evaluate tools, technologies, frameworks, and vendors for the platform along with other senior team members
 * You'll write performant and concise code to meet the defined standards here at GrubHub, review the code of peers, and ensure security and scalability of the features you work on
 * You'll help to create the backlog of tech debt and features, suggesting areas for improvement and enhancement
 * You'll actively work with other team members in the domain and be a team player