Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Software Development Engineer II role stands out as SaaS work rooted in a two sided marketplace, where pricing, demand shaping, and rewards mechanics have to be expressed as reliable platform services. The listing signals a product that is expanding geographically, which typically pushes backend teams to harden service boundaries, data flows, and operational tooling as usage patterns diversify across markets.
For a SaaS engineer, the career value here is the concentration on distributed systems fundamentals that recur across subscription and platform businesses: deterministic workflows, backward compatibility, idempotency, and production observability. The remit spans design through QA and production support, which can build strong instincts around reliability and incident response, not just feature delivery. The emphasis on translating business needs into live services also develops the product engineering muscle that many SaaS companies prize as they scale.
This role is best suited to a mid level backend engineer who prefers clear ownership and is comfortable collaborating directly with non engineering stakeholders. It will fit someone who enjoys designing service oriented architectures, tuning performance, and treating operational excellence as part of the job, particularly in an on site environment with close iteration cycles.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
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 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)
Benefits
- $160K - $180K + 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
