Engineering Manager for Bookability

at  Groupon

Groupon is a marketplace where customers discover new experiences and services everyday and local businesses thrive. To date we have worked with over a million merchant partners worldwide, connecting over 16 million customers with deals across various categories. In a world often dominated by e-commerce giants, we stand out as one of the few platforms uniquely committed to helping local businesses succeed on a performance basis.
Groupon is on a radical journey to transform our business with relentless pursuit of results. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. The impact here can be immediate due to our scale and the speed of our transformation. We’re a “best of both worlds” kind of company. We’re big enough to have the resources and scale, but small enough that a single person has a surprising amount of autonomy and can make a meaningful impact.

WE’RE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR AN EXPERIENCED ENGINEERING MANAGER TO JOIN OUR BOOKABILITY TEAM ON ITS AMBITIOUS MISSION IN OUR PRAGUE OFFICE (IN A HYBRID MODE).

Bookability is one of Groupon’s strategic initiatives, aiming to elevate our offerings by allowing customers to conveniently book deal appointments directly from the Groupon interface. To achieve this, we need to integrate seamlessly with popular booking systems, making the process smooth and attractive for merchants. This is where the Bookability Integrations engineering team comes in.
We’re just at the beginning and looking for someone with a builder’s mindset, someone who won’t be stopped by things not going right the first, second, or even third time.

• Map out the needs in detail and manage your own Bookability Integrations squad to cover the entire merchant-facing Bookability agenda.
• Connect new and maintain existing third-party booking engine solutions (e.g., Booksy, Mindbody) via their API to integrate with our backend services for seamless data exchange.
• Ensure flawless data connections to third parties.
• Take ownership of the data flow within our internal systems (Groupon customer-facing site, Salesforce, etc.).
• Create an easy-to-use interface and workflow for creating new deals in our internal deal creation tool using data from integrated booking systems. This tool must work across desktop, mobile web, and mobile app platforms.
• Form an operational paratrooping squad to cover the entire bookability vertical independently, including front-end and back-end development and QA.
• Collaborate closely with the Product Manager for Bookability to meet business needs and take full ownership of the engineering delivery.
• Lead the Bookability Integration Team on a daily operational level within a Scrum framework (daily stand-ups, groomings, etc.).
• Manage the team (including regular 1:1 meetings), administrative agenda, and reporting.