Seated · 2 days ago
Software Development Engineer II - Payments
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$160K/yr - $180K/yr
3+ years expSeated is the first dynamic pricing platform for restaurants, seeking a mid-level Software Development Engineer with expertise in card payment processing. The role involves building and scaling systems for managing restaurant transactions and collaborating with business stakeholders to translate requirements into effective workflows.
Food DeliveryMobile AppsRestaurants
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
Qualification
Required
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
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)
Benefits
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
Company
Seated
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51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$30.13MKey Investors
Insight PartnersTechstars
2024-05-10Convertible Note
2020-08-18Series Unknown· $30M
2019-11-13Series B
Leadership Team
Brice Gumpel
CEO & Co-Founder
Lauren Logan
VP of Product Management
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