Software Development Engineer II

About this role

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

About Seated

Seated is the first dynamic pricing platform for restaurants. We help fill their empty seats while providing consumers incredible rewards to top brands and unique experiences. We are quickly expanding our offerings to cities across the country and are looking for talented and ambitious people to embark on the journey with us!

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 latencey

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 build...