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Salary: USD 176,000 - 242,000 / annual
Otter is a software platform that helps restaurants succeed in online food delivery. The company powers menu management, order operations, and delivery logistics for 150K+ restaurants globally, including major brands like Chick-fil-A, Ben & Jerry's, KFC, and Eataly. The Menu Platform is the central hub for comprehensive menu management, enabling real-time updates, channel-specific availability, pricing configuration, ingredient management, bundling, promotions, A/B testing, and automated syncing across delivery channels (DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub) and POS systems (Square, Toast, Clover, NCR). The platform maintains 99.99% availability and serves as critical infrastructure for restaurants worldwide.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Menu Platform team, you will be a backend-focused individual contributor responsible for advancing this high-scale, high-impact system. Key responsibilities include building data-driven features that power dynamic menu operations, contributing to planning and strategy for tools and internal platforms, designing and implementing backend services using agile practices, collaborating cross-functionally with engineering, product, and support teams, writing and maintaining high-quality code across multiple projects, architecting scalable systems for large distributed workloads, improving platform reliability and performance, and championing innovation through exploration of new technologies.
Required qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent; 3+ years of professional software engineering experience; strong background in building scalable and reliable distributed systems; experience with large-scale, high-traffic applications; proficiency in Java and modern backend development practices; ability to design new systems and evolve existing architectures; demonstrated track record of meaningful contributions; clear communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
The role is based in Mountain View with a five-day-per-week onsite requirement. The company emphasizes close collaboration and continuous innovation as core to its culture.
