At Groupon, engineers are becoming Agent Orchestrators. If you're done with classical coding, this is worth reading. 

Most companies are still figuring out AI access. We moved past that. Every Groupon employee has Gemini integrated into their GWorkspace. We run an open-source OpenWebUI platform - giving the whole organisation access to multiple LLM models, custom chatbots, shared prompts, and the ability to interrogate real datasets. Over 50% of our code is now AI-generated. That was phase one. We're now in phase two.

Agentic-First

We've made a deliberate shift: from AI as a coding assistant to AI agents as the primary way we build software. Here's what that looks like in practice.

A developer and product team map a new service in Figma. That architecture goes into Claude Code. In minutes, it produces production-ready TypeScript for our Temporal/Encore platform. A new service - born.

We're not pretending every problem is that clean. But the direction is set: every engineer at Groupon is becoming an Agent Builder and Orchestrator. The role is evolving - from writing code to designing systems, prompting agents, and owning outcomes end-to-end.

The Actual Work

We have over 450 legacy services in Java and Ruby that need modernising. That's not a liability - it's the problem space. Real scale, real complexity, real consequences, real engineering challenges. The mission is to modernise that estate using an agentic-first approach: faster, leaner, and fundamentally different from how it would have been done two years ago.

If you want to be part of building that - not watching it from the outside - there's meaningful work to be done here.

How We Work

Five principles govern this team:

• Extreme Ownership. One engineer, one outcome.

• Speed Over Comfort. Ship, learn, iterate. Perfection is a delay we can't afford.

• Impact Obsessed. Build what moves the metrics that matter. Filter everything else.

• Simplify to Scale. The cleanest architecture wins. Complexity is a liability.

• Disciplined. Constraints breed creativity. We do more with less - deliberately.

Who Belongs Here

Engineers who treat AI as a baseline, not a selling point. People who want to own a problem, not a ticket. Those who'd rather orchestrate agents than wait for a sprint review. If that's you - check our open roles or reach out directly.