Staff Software Engineer - Orders Platform

We are seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to help shape and scale a mission-critical ordering platform that powers restaurant operations. In this high-ownership role, you will drive the architecture and evolution of distributed systems designed to process, synchronize, and reconcile orders reliably, even during network outages or partial system failures. You will work with advanced engineering patterns such as event sourcing, conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs), and offline-first data architectures. Collaborating across Engineering, Product, Payments, and Reporting, you will deliver resilient end-to-end ordering experiences across web, mobile, and point-of-sale environments. You will serve as a technical anchor for the team, influencing architectural decisions while remaining deeply hands-on with implementation. This remote-first opportunity offers the chance to solve complex technical challenges in a fast-growing technology environment.

• Extensive experience building and operating correctness-critical distributed systems.

• Hands-on experience with event sourcing, CRDTs, or comparable approaches to replicated and offline-first data management, such as synchronization engines or conflict-resolution layers.

• Strong understanding of idempotency, optimistic concurrency, event replay, projections, reconciliation, and distributed data consistency.

• Ability to reason through complex failure scenarios, including interrupted operations, unavailable nodes, network partitions, and concurrent changes.

• Staff-level engineering experience, with a proven ability to influence technical direction, lead architectural decisions, and remain actively involved in hands-on development.

• Strong backend engineering skills and the ability to quickly learn specialized technologies and make complex systems more resilient.

• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain sophisticated technical concepts and make system knowledge accessible to others.

• Experience mentoring engineers, reviewing technical designs, and helping teams adopt sound engineering practices.

• Preferred: Backend engineering experience in payment processing or ordering systems.

• Preferred: Ability to collaborate with payments and reporting teams while owning the order-related components of financial transaction workflows.

• A strong customer-oriented mindset and willingness to engage directly with restaurant operators to understand and solve operational challenges.

• Experience in restaurants, retail, or IT environments is considered an advantage but is not required.

• Familiarity with technologies in the platform's ecosystem is beneficial, including Kotlin, TypeScript, React, React Native, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Datadog, PostgreSQL, SQLite, OpenTelemetry Collectors, and Kafka.