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Senior Backend Software Engineer

Otter · Los Angeles, CA · On-site

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About Otter

Otter matches parents who need care with trusted sitters in their community, on-demand. Backed by Sequoia and a16z.

About the role

At Otter Grow, we are a fast-paced, product-focused engineering team building the future of Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) dining. Otter Grow provides the end-to-end platform for direct ordering, merchant storefront configurations, and hyper-targeted customer engagement. As a backend generalist on this team, you will design and scale the services that power our customizable front-end web experiences, facility direct ordering, and advanced merchant tools, ensuring a seamless experience for customers.

What they're looking for

  • 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 Go, 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, MongoDB, Redis)
  • Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
More about this role

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.

At Otter Grow, we are a fast-paced, product-focused engineering team building the future of Direct-to-Consumer (D2C) dining. Otter Grow provides the end-to-end platform for direct ordering, merchant storefront configurations, and hyper-targeted customer engagement.

As a backend generalist on this team, you will design and scale the services that power our customizable front-end web experiences, facility direct ordering, and advanced merchant tools, ensuring a seamless experience for customers.

  • Architecture, build, and maintain highly scalable backend services in Java to power our direct ordering ecosystem and storefront...

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