Backend Software Engineer, Wonder
$139.5-158k
Salary applicable to NY - may vary in other locations. Plus equity.
Extraordinary food that comes to you
Be an early applicant
Extraordinary food that comes to you
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$139.5-158k
Salary applicable to NY - may vary in other locations. Plus equity.
1001+ employees
Company mission
To remake the relationship Americans have with food by revolutionising home dining.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s Degree in a science, programming or engineering related field
- 2+ 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
What the job involves
- 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
Our take
Food delivered to your door often gets cold and soggy as it travels in a courier's bag from the restaurant to your home. Using Wonder, customers order food from a mobile app, which is cooked in a truck right outside your door. It aims to improve the standard of home-delivered food, both the quality of product – working with world-renowned chefs – and the experience itself.
Wonder has received fair criticism surrounding poor environmental consideration, as each kitchen/van sits idle with the engine running whilst food is prepared. A study by the US Department of Energy found that banning the unnecessary idling of personal vehicles would be the same as taking 5 million vehicles off the roads.
Despite this, Wonder has sustainability strategies involving food sourcing, reducing food waste, sustainable packaging, and, notably, an emissions-neutral fleet. Wonder has received enormous funding, bringing it to a valuation of $7 billion, and the number of vans distributed across North America is expected to multiply exponentially.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2026
$200m
LATE VC
May 2025
$600m
LATE VC
Total funding: $2.3bn
Company benefits
- 401k with employer match
- Medical, dental, vision
- Health savings account with employer match
- 100% employer paid life insurance
- 2x pay if you work on holidays
- Learning and development opportunities to advance your career
- Wonder offers hourly employees stock options
Company HQ
World Trade Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Marc Lore
(Founder & CEO)Has previously (co-)founded the following companies: Global Association of Risk Professionals, The Pit, Quidsi, Jet.com, Mojo, Wizard and City of Telosa.
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