Staff Software Engineer - Orders Platform (Distributed Systems)

Location: Remote in the United States or Canada. The company is remote-first; the role may involve direct work with restaurants, including in-person visits.

Base salary: $240K–$260K USD annually, depending on level, location, and experience, plus pre-IPO equity.

Company

Owner builds an AI-native all-in-one platform for independent restaurants, including websites, online ordering, CRM, POS, and related operating tools.

What you will do

• Set technical direction for how orders are modeled, stored, replicated, and reconciled.
• Design and build event-sourced and replicated-state systems that remain correct under retries, network partitions, concurrent edits, and partial failures.
• Partner with Product, Payments, Reporting, POS, and mobile engineering teams to deliver reliable end-to-end ordering flows.
• Review designs and code, mentor engineers, and build team fluency in distributed-systems patterns.
• Improve observability, replay, and recovery while minimizing operational costs.
• Document platform behavior and reduce bus-factor risk.

Requirements

• Track record of building correctness-critical distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with event sourcing, CRDTs, or comparable replicated and offline-first data approaches such as sync engines or conflict-resolution layers.
• Experience with idempotency, optimistic concurrency, event replay, projections, and reconciliation.
• Ability to reason about node disappearance during operations and design for partial failure.
• Ability to learn specialized technologies quickly and make them more robust.
• Staff-level experience leading technical direction while remaining hands-on with code.
• Clear written and verbal communication, with a habit of making complex systems easier to understand.
• Willingness to work directly with restaurants, including in-person visits and phone or text communication.

Nice to have

• Backend experience in payment or ordering systems.
• Ability to partner with payments and reporting teams while owning the order side of money-moving flows.
• Previous experience in restaurants, retail, or IT.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first workplace with work-from-anywhere benefits, subject to the role's stated location eligibility.
• Comprehensive health coverage and unlimited PTO.
• Pre-IPO equity package and additional perks.
• High-ownership environment with a small group responsible for a tier-zero platform used by restaurants every day.