Grubhub

Principal Software Engineer

Grubhub
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Base Salary

$244k - $254k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define architecture for context aggregation solutions, MCPs, CLIs, skills, sub-agents, and AI tooling integrations with Wonder’s codebases, services, and systems.
  • Set technical direction for autonomous development agents, cloud agent solutions, access controls, and guardrails.
  • Establish strategies and standards for AI-assisted code generation, review, testing, documentation, refactoring, and incident management.
  • Design pre-review and triage tooling that automates mechanical and policy issues and define standards for reviewing AI-generated code.
  • Create systems that optimize AI costs, abstract model selection, route tasks to suitable models, and measure developer velocity against AI spend.
  • Guide cross-team technical outcomes, evaluate build-versus-buy, cost, and risk tradeoffs, and ensure solutions reach production.
  • Write strategy documents, specifications, and documentation; communicate technical tradeoffs across teams and leadership; and mentor senior engineers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including recent hands-on work with LLM-based tooling such as agents, MCP servers, or coding assistants.
  • Direct experience integrating AI tools into development workflows such as code review, testing, code generation, or documentation, ideally at organizational scale.
  • Strong system design skills and experience owning tools or platforms end-to-end through adoption across multiple teams.
  • Experience designing and consuming APIs, webhooks, or other integration and message-based systems.
  • Experience building developer tooling, internal platforms, CI/CD systems, or other software primarily used by engineers.
  • Experience with Java/JVM and/or Python is preferred but not required.
  • Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, communication, technical discussion, and cross-functional leadership skills.

Benefits

  • Equity and a 401(k).
  • Medical, dental, and vision plan options.
  • Company-paid short- and long-term disability coverage.
  • Paid time off, flexible time off for exempt employees, paid vacation for non-exempt employees, and paid sick leave.
  • Paid parental leave, discounted meals, and exclusive perks across Wonder’s brands.
  • Eligibility, effective dates, and plan options vary by employment classification and location.
Grubhub

About Grubhub

5,001-10,000 employees

Grubhub builds an online marketplace and logistics network for ordering takeout and delivery from local restaurants across the U.S. It earns commissions and delivery fees, and offers consumer subscriptions and corporate solutions. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Chicago, it is part of Wonder Group and lists hundreds of thousands of merchants across 4,000+ cities.

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