Senior Backend Engineer

At Olo we develop an online food ordering platform used by many of the country's largest restaurant chains, reaching millions of consumers. Chances are if you've ordered directly from a restaurant brand's app or website, we've made that happen. As a Senior Backend Engineer on our team, you will architect, develop, scale, and monitor solutions, improvements, and services across our Olo Engage product suite. Our software products support our brands in harnessing guest data from across their tech stack to boost retention, lower acquisition costs, and do more with less. We handle restaurant event data in the scale of billions of events per month. Find out more at https://www.olo.com/engage.

We aim to collaborate well. We encourage new ideas and experimentation. No part of the codebase is off-limits. You'll work with a passionate team dedicated to delivering amazing products using modern technologies.

You can work remotely from anywhere in the U.S. or at Olo’s headquarters in NYC.

What You'll Do

• Design and build reliable but simple solutions to complex problems at scale.
• Own the code and services you deploy, observe performance, and identify emerging problems.
• Assess and resolve production incidents that arise in the components your team manages.
• Help us scale to the next level of growth and reliability as we onboard new enterprise clients.
• Research and propose new technologies to apply.
• Look for diverse perspectives, and challenge business and technical assumptions.
• Provide constructive criticism in a way that builds the team's overall strength.
• Satisfy commitments.

What We’ll Expect From You

• 6+ years on-the-job development experience.
• Experience with architecting and developing end-to-end flows in a distributed/microservices application architecture.
• Experience writing unit tests and testable code.
• Bias for working in a highly collaborative team environment.
• Empathy for customer needs and excellent communication of your understanding.

How We Work

• We foster a culture of collaboration, communication, skill-sharing, belonging, mutual respect, and curiosity.
• We practice Whole Team Quality, no throwing code over the wall.
• System Reliability Engineering, Scalability, and Security are embedded throughout our software process.
• We are outcome, not output, focused.

Our Tech Stack

• Languages: Javascript, Typescript
• Frameworks: Vue, Node
• Datastores: PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Redis
• Deployment: Kubernetes, Helm, CI/CD
• Infrastructure: AWS
• Tooling: GitLab, Datadog, SumoLogic
• Architecture patterns: Microservices, Queues, Workers, HPA