Software engineer jobs in Los Angeles, CA

About the role

As a backend engineer on this team, you will design and scale the services behind order orchestration, payment flows, offline-first sync, and multi-device coordination.

What you'll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience is required.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Deep understanding of backend system design, APIs, data stores, microservices, concurrency, and distributed systems.
• Our stack heavily utilizes Java and Kotlin, but we care more about your engineering fundamentals than the specific languages you've used.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, Redis).
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Experience with event streaming or stream processing (e.g., Kafka, Flink).
• Experience building systems that handle ordering states, payment flows, or multi-device coordination.
• Comfort working with mobile and client engineers, including how backend choices affect reliability on the device.
• Interest in building systems that restaurant operators and staff use every day.
• Familiarity with offline-first architectures, sync protocols, or conflict resolution.
• CRDTs a plus

Benefits