Software Development Engineer II

This role is on-site, 5 days a week, working from our Flatiron office in NYC.

About Seated

Seated exists to help restaurants thrive in an industry defined by thin margins and underutilized capacity. We connect thousands of restaurants with millions of high-intent diners through demand-driven pricing and rewards, helping restaurants fill empty tables, reach new guests, increase visit frequency, and drive profitable incremental revenue.

Since launching, billions of dollars in restaurant spend have flowed through Seated, and hundreds of millions of dollars in rewards have been paid to Seated consumers. Today, Seated operates across 20+ U.S. markets and continues to expand nationally.

Our core marketplace is thriving. Now, we’re focused on expanding the value Seated creates for restaurants and consumers and building the company’s next major growth engine.

See it for yourself: seatedapp.io (restaurant side) · getseated.seatedapp.io (diner side) ·Seated on iOS ·Seated on Android

Role Overview

We're fast-paced, innovative, and metric-driven, with a team passionate about delighting our customers. We're looking for a mid-level Software Development Engineer with a strong foundation in backend systems and distributed architectures. You'll help build and scale the systems that power Seated's growing platform.

You'll translate business needs into live features and partner directly with business owners who recognize the value of technology. You'll have a strong voice in product design and ownership across coding, QA, and production support.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems that power our core platform services
• Partner with business stakeholders to translate requirements into well-implemented, deterministic workflows and services
• Build reliable, fault-tolerant distributed systems with strong coding, testing, observability, performance, and reliability practices
• Contribute to technical design for high-performance, service-oriented architectures
• Scale backend services and microservices for high throughput and low latency

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or Engineering; 3+ years of experience shipping production payment/fintech systems
• Strong understanding of backend architecture and distributed systems design
• Ability to quickly learn new payment technologies and apply them to real-world solutions and product design
• Proficiency in Java and the Spring Boot framework; or equivalent expertise in a similar object-oriented language.
• Experience building high-availability systems, including low-latency APIs and distributed RESTful/gRPC services; practiced in backward compatibility, deterministic behavior, and idempotency

Preferred Experience

• Solid knowledge of distributed databases and scalable, fault-tolerant caching
• Experience with AI agents and prompt engineering; able to build web features using agentic workflows and modern frontend frameworks
• Cloud experience (AWS or GCP), containerization (Docker); familiarity with AWS services such as ECS, RDS, and Kinesis, plus observability tools like Datadog
• Preferred: Experience with workflow orchestration engines (Temporal, Cadence, or AWS Step Functions)

Benefits

• $160K - $180K + stock options
• 401k with company match
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• FSA, dependent care, and commuter benefits
• Paid parental leave and unlimited PTO
• TeleDoc, One Medical, Talkspace, and WellHub access
• Citi Bike membership
• $100 monthly Seated dining credit