About the Company
In the past, to be a successful restaurateur, you simply had to have a passion for food and a passion for people - but to succeed as a digital restaurateur you also need to have a passion for technology. We believe in the joy of serving others, and that's why we created Otter – to help restaurateurs succeed in online food delivery. Restaurants around the world, both large and small, including Chick-fil-A, Ben & Jerry’s, KFC, and Eataly trust our software to power their delivery business. We increase sales, reduce order issues, and decrease delivery headaches.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain Java backend services for order lifecycle, payments, device sync, and restaurant workflows.
- Design and optimize APIs and event-driven systems so POS devices, kitchen displays, and cloud services stay consistent with low latency.
- Build systems that keep working offline and sync across multiple devices in a facility.
- Work with Android engineers, product managers, and other teams to ship systems used in live restaurants.
- Keep code quality high through testing, code reviews, observability, and owning what you ship in production.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience is required.
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Deep understanding of backend system design, APIs, data stores, microservices, concurrency, and distributed systems.
- Our stack heavily utilizes Java and Kotlin, but we care more about your engineering fundamentals than the specific languages you've used.
- Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, Redis).
- Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with event streaming or stream processing (e.g., Kafka, Flink).
- Experience building systems that handle ordering states, payment flows, or multi-device coordination.
- Familiarity with offline-first architectures, sync protocols, or conflict resolution (CRDTs a plus).
- Comfort working with mobile and client engineers, including how backend choices affect reliability on the device.
- Interest in building systems that restaurant operators and staff use every day.
Conditions
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance (multiple plans, incl. HSA options).
- Company-paid life and disability insurance (short- and long-term).
- Voluntary insurance: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity.
- Optional supplemental life insurance for self, spouse, and children.
- Pet insurance discount.
- 401(k).
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
- Time Off policies: Discretionary vacation days, 8 paid holidays per year, Paid sick time, Paid Bereavement leave, Paid Parental Leave