Seated

Software Development Engineer II – Payments

Seated  •  $160k - $180k/yr  •  New York City, NY (Onsite)  •  3 months ago
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Job Description

All About Us


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!

The Role


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 card payment processing and payments infrastructure. You’ll help build and scale the systems that manage Seated’s growing network of restaurants and their transactions. 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 reliably manage merchant accounts, transactions, and attribution logic
  • 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 latency across fast‑growing payment datasets

Requirements
  • Bachelor’s in Computer Science or Engineering; 3+ years of experience shipping production payment/fintech systems
  • Deep understanding of payments infrastructure, including card network flows, authorization/settlement lifecycles, and payment processor/gateway integrations
  • 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 building high‑availability systems, including low‑latency APIs and distributed RESTful/gRPC services; practiced in backward compatibility, deterministic behavior, and idempotency

Preferred Experience
  • Solid knowledge of distributed databases and scalable, fault‑tolerant caching
  • Experience with AI agents and prompt engineering; able to build web features using agentic workflows and modern frontend frameworks
  • Cloud experience (AWS or GCP), containerization (Docker); familiarity with AWS services such as ECS, RDS, and Kinesis, plus observability tools like Datadog
  • Preferred: Experience with workflow orchestration engines (Temporal, Cadence, or AWS Step Functions)

Compensation and Benefits
  • $160K - $180K plus stock options
  • 401k with company match
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • FSA, dependent care, and commuter benefits
  • Paid parental leave and unlimited PTO
  • TeleDoc, One Medical, Talkspace, and WellHub access
  • Citi Bike membership
  • $100 monthly Seated dining credit

At Seated, we welcome passionate people from all backgrounds, helping us to make dining experiences more accessible & rewarding. If you have the curiosity & passion to drive our mission together, we would love to hear from you.

Seated

About Seated

Seated is an app that rewards consumers for dining out, ordering pickup or getting delivery from local restaurants. Seated is the first dynamic pricing platform for restaurants--we help fill their seats while providing members incredible rewards to top brands and unique experiences.

Here at Seated, we strongly believe that restaurants are a vital part of our community. Through best-of-breed technology, our mission is to help ensure their continued success as they provide amazing meals and one-of-a-kind experiences. We currently drive demand to over 1,000 restaurant partners across 4 US markets, helping to grow both their dine-in and online order sales. For each meal enjoyed, our members earn rewards to top brands like Uber, Sephora, Target, Amazon & CB2, building a loyal member community to support our local restaurant partners.

We’re a team of entrepreneurs, small business lovers, restaurant enthusiasts, hackers, developers and functional experts all passionate about using technology to push the restaurant world to a new frontier. Backed by Insight, Craft, Rho, Greycroft and Glade Brook we’re expanding quickly and looking for talented and ambitious people to embark on the journey with us!

Instagram: @getseated

Email: support@seatedapp.io

Text Support: 617-500-0852

Website: www.seatedapp.io

Industry
Unknown
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
New York
Year Founded
2017
Website
seatedapp.io
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