Vaibhav Arora — Software Engineer

Software Engineering Manager with close to 3 years of engineering leadership experience and overall 11 years of experience in the tech industry. Currently driving impactful solutions at Groupon in the e-commerce domain. I lead a global team of 10 engineers responsible for third-party integrations and inventory services, supporting critical systems that help Groupon deliver 1.5M+ orders annually and generate over $60M in gross profit. My career began in software development, where I honed my skills in system architecture, scalable backend development, and full SDLC ownership. Transitioning into leadership, I’ve successfully scaled engineering teams, led strategic initiatives, and driven delivery across complex stakeholder landscapes. From setting and executing KPIs to ensuring engineering excellence, I focus on building high-performance teams that deliver measurable business value. 🚀 Key Highlights: - Solving Groupon’s supply-side problem by delivering third party integrations with large partners, significantly improving deal availability. - Delivered bookability for deals, enhancing customer experience and conversion. - Scaled my team from 2 to 10 engineers while maintaining delivery velocity. - Deep experience in SDLC, architecture design, and cross-functional leadership. - Strong background in stakeholder communication, recruiting, and mentoring. I’m passionate about engineering leadership, building scalable systems, and driving business outcomes through technology. Always open to sharing experiences, learning from others, and exploring innovative ideas in the e-commerce and tech space.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with strong leadership in E-commerce.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 13 yrs 3 mos

Skills

System Architecture
Microservices
Team Leadership
Software Development
Java
Spring Boot

Career Highlights

Led a global team of 10 engineers at Groupon.
Delivered high-impact integrations with major partners.
Scaled engineering team while maintaining delivery velocity.

Work Experience

Groupon

Software Engineering Manager II (2 yrs 6 mos)

Software Engineering Manager (1 yr 6 mos)

Software Development Engineer III (11 mos)

Software Development Engineer II (2 yrs 5 mos)

MakeMyTrip.com

Senior Software Engineer (2 yrs 1 mo)

Adobe System Inc

Software Engineer (1 yr 1 mo)

Ericsson India Global Services Pvt. Ltd.

Engineer-Network Engineering (1 yr 9 mos)

Student Placement Coordinator at NIT Patna

Student Placement Coordinator (1 yr 1 mo)

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) at National Institute of Technology, Patna

ICSE at Children's Academy, Jaipur

Vaibhav Arora

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led a global team of 10 engineers at Groupon.
Delivered high-impact integrations with major partners.
Scaled engineering team while maintaining delivery velocity.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with strong leadership in E-commerce.

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Skills

Core Skills

System ArchitectureMicroservicesTeam LeadershipSoftware DevelopmentJavaSpring Boot

Other Skills

RedisGitHubAmazon Web Services (AWS)JenkinsContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Amazon S3Key Performance IndicatorsStakeholder EngagementStrategic InitiativesPeople ManagementInterviewingTeam ManagementSoftware Architectural DesignAgile MethodologiesMongoDB

About

Experience

13 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Groupon

4 roles

Software Engineering Manager II

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

As a Software Engineering Manager at Groupon, I lead a global team of 10 engineers responsible for building and scaling third-party integration and inventory services, supporting critical systems that enable Groupon’s marketplace across multiple verticals, including Things To Do and Health, Beauty & Wellness.
I am also one of the founding members and the engineering manager for the GrouponConnect platform — a strategic initiative that provides a seamless and standardized way for partners to integrate with Groupon. This platform is foundational to expanding Groupon’s supply network and improving partner onboarding and maintenance at scale.
Our work directly supports the delivery of over 1.5 million orders annually, driving more than $60 million in gross profit.
🌟 Key Achievements:
Founding member and engineering lead for GrouponConnect, enabling standardized, scalable partner integrations.
Delivered high-impact integrations with major partners such as Universal Studios, AMC Theatres, and Costco.
Solved complex supply-side challenges, improving inventory accuracy and deal availability.
Launched deal bookability, enhancing user experience and conversion.
Scaled the engineering team from 2 to 10, fostering a culture of ownership, innovation, and high performance.
Owned the full SDLC, including architectural decisions, implementation, QA, deployment, and monitoring.
Defined and drove key KPIs, aligning engineering output with company goals.
Actively involved in technical hiring and mentoring, helping grow talent and strengthen team capabilities.
Collaborated cross-functionally with product, business, and operations stakeholders to deliver strategic initiatives.
I focus on building scalable, reliable systems that solve real business problems and provide long-term value — all while empowering teams to do their best work.

RedisGitHubAmazon Web Services (AWS)JenkinsContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)System Architecture+2

Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jul 2022 – Jan 2024 · 1 yr 6 mos

RedisKey Performance IndicatorsStakeholder EngagementStrategic InitiativesPeople ManagementSoftware Development+12

Software Development Engineer III

Aug 2021 – Jul 2022 · 11 mos

RedisGitHubAmazon Web Services (AWS)JenkinsContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)System Architecture+2

Software Development Engineer II

Mar 2019 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 5 mos

RedisGitHubAmazon Web Services (AWS)JenkinsContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)System Architecture+2

Makemytrip.com

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2017 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

Product : MMT-SEO
Working as a Backend Developer for MakeMyTrip. Part of the team that handle the SEO website for MakeMyTrip.
Successfully migrated the legacy SEO website from Drupal + PHP + Mysql to JAVA+Spring Boot + MongoDB + JSP + JQuery + FTL .
Independently designed and implemented the data sync framework for the SEO backend using Apache Kafka, which leveraged the maximum possible use of the severs and also reduced the data sync duration by 4 times.
Developed several REST microservice to be consumed within the application or by other teams in the organization.
Automated data reporting tasks for marketing team using Hive.

Adobe system inc

Software Engineer

Jan 2016 – Feb 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Noida Area, India

Product : Adobe Social (https://social.omniture.com)
Working as an Automation Developer for Adobe. The Job profile includes
developing, maintaining and monitoring various automations being used for the
product. The automation aim to check sanity of various API being used in the
product. Also various monitors have been developed which interact with Social
networks namely, Facebook, Twitter etc. ; these monitors creates posts and
interactions on the network and check the latency of their collection in the
application.

Ericsson india global services pvt. ltd.

Engineer-Network Engineering

Apr 2014 – Jan 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

Working as a Engineer in the Network Engineering,BUGS GSI Application Development department of Ericsson India Global Services Pvt. Ltd.
Worked as Team Lead for JAVA development. The job profile includes development , testing, bug fixing and deployement of various tools and processes. which deals with real time data processing and loading.
The tools deals with data fetching from different types of sources, extraction of data, parsing of data, and data loading into the DB.
All the tools provide back end functionality to ESPA tool provided by Ericsson India Global Services to its customers such as Bharti-Airtel, Vodafone Netherlands, LIME etc.