Software Engineer II

About us

We created Seated to drive more business to local restaurants by offering our members rewards for dining out, ordering pickup, and getting delivery. By making it easier to discover new restaurants and rewarding members when they dine, we encourage them to explore their communities while supporting the local businesses that help those communities thrive. And we only make money when restaurants make money—guaranteed.

With restaurant partners and members across the US, we’re rapidly expanding. And backed by Insight, Craft, Rho, Greycroft, and Glade Brook, we’re looking for talented and ambitious people to join us. If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

The Role:

We are fast-paced, innovative and metric-driven, with a team that are passionate about delighting our customers. Whether you want to work with incredible product design, develop technology solutions for mobile applications, scale our microservices for millions of users, use AI for automation & fraud prevention or do something else awesome in between, we have a place for you.

As the Software Engineer II you will help define technical standards and drive the architectural and engineering vision in a very dynamic environment. You’ll translate business needs into live features and partner directly with business owners who recognize the value of technology. You will have a strong voice in product design and ownership over coding, QA, and production support.

To be successful in this role you will have 2+ years of experience in developing and supporting software systems, as well as being a strong individual contributor with strong quantitative, analytical, strategic thinking and problem-solving skills.

What you’ll do

• Actively participate in tech design for complex high-performance service-oriented architectures
• Develop reliable, fault-tolerant & distributed software solutions, ensuring global compatibility
• Work with business users to ensure understanding of the business process and proper implementation in software
• Scale backend systems & microservices for high throughput & low latency while running against rapidly expanding data sets
• Follows engineering best practices from coding, testing and performance perspective

What you’ll bring

• Bachelors in CS or Engineering, Masters preferred
• 2+ years experience in successfully shipping large scale engineering projects
• Ability to rapidly adapt to new technologies and concepts to productional business solutions & product designs
• In-depth knowledge of distributed database systems, big data architectures & scalable fault-tolerant caching solutions
• Hands-on development experience in Java or similar object-oriented programing language
• Experience developing low latency APIs and distributed RESTful/gRPC Web-Services
• Experience & in-depth knowledge of Dockers, Kubernetes or similar container technologies

What you’ll get

• Comprehensive Healthcare, Dental, and Vision plans for you to choose from
• Generous 401(k) match
• Stock options
• Unlimited PTO
• Pre-Tax Flexible FSA, Dependent Care FSA
• Commuter Benefits
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• TeleDoc Membership for 24/7 virtual care
• One Medical Membership
• Talkspace Membership with access to thousands of licensed therapists 24/7
• Gympass Membership with access to thousands of gyms and studios
• Citi Bike Monthly Membership
• Seated ‘Unplugged Day’ - We make sure all employees take at least 1 day off every month to completely “unplug” from work (no slack/no email).
• $100 a month to spend at Seated restaurants (or Seated at Home)
• We have an office in NYC with stocked fridges (for those who wish to come into an office)

At Seated we welcome passionate people from all backgrounds, helping us make dining experiences more accessible & rewarding. If you have the curiosity & passion to drive our mission together, we would love to hear from you.