Senior Backend Software Engineer

As a Software Engineer on the Otter Marketing/Boost team, you'll build the AI-powered platform that puts restaurant growth on autopilot, automating marketing for each storefront across delivery platforms. Your code will turn a merchant's budget and goals into real orders.

- Build backend services for campaign management, budgeting, and a multi-channel pipeline that deploys campaigns and keeps them in sync across delivery platforms.

- Develop the AI-driven Boost engine that analyzes each store, picks the best marketing for its goal, executes within budget, and recalibrates automatically.

- Build durable workflows for campaign orchestration, budget enforcement, and auto-pause guardrails that run correctly, every day, at scale.

- Integrate with third-party delivery platforms and handle the realities of external APIs: partial failures, retries, and reconciliation.

- Own your services end-to-end: develop, instrument, debug, and improve reliability and performance.

We value diversity of experience and are looking for engineers excited to own complex, high-impact systems. We look for a strong sense of ownership, people ready to take their work from idea to production and take responsibility for outcomes.

- Proficiency in a general-purpose backend language (e.g., Java, Go, or Python).

- Solid foundation in distributed systems, microservices, and API design (gRPC and/or REST).

- Experience with databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, CockroachDB) and writing performant queries.

- Strong debugging skills and an instinct for reliability in systems that integrate with unpredictable third parties.

- Experience operating services in production, and a collaborative, product-minded approach.

- Workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal, Cadence) or event-driven architectures (Kafka).

- Large-scale data and analytics tooling (Trino, Flink, Iceberg, or equivalent).

- ML systems in production, predictions, ranking, or optimization, or a strong interest in them.

- Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and containers (Docker, Kubernetes)

- Demand for online food delivery is growing really fast! In the last 5 years, just in the US, the overall market has expanded 10X from $10B to $100B, and could expand to $500bn- $1T by 2030.

- Changing the restaurant industry: You'll be part of a team that helps restaurants succeed in online food delivery.

- Collaborative environment: You will receive support and guidance from experienced colleagues and managers, helping you to learn, grow and achieve your goals, and you'll work closely with other teams to ensure our customer's success.

This role is based in our Seattle office location. As a company driven by innovation and continuous change, close collaboration is essential. We're constantly reimagining our industry, creating new products, and refining our processes, and we do our best work together.

That's why all of our office-based teams work onsite, five days a week.

The base salary range for this role is $167,000 - $230,000 per year.