Backend Systems Engineer II — Fintech‑Scale Platform

Seated, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401k match

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

FSA & dependent care

Commuter benefits

Paid parental leave

Unlimited PTO

TeleDoc

Job summary

Seated, Inc. is seeking a mid‑level Software Development Engineer to strengthen our backend stack at our NYC Flatiron office.

You will build and scale the services powering Seated's growing platform, translating business needs into live features and working closely with product owners on design and production support. You’ll contribute to high‑performance, distributed architectures, own critical components, and partner with stakeholders to deliver reliable, deterministic workflows.

Qualifications

• 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

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 latency

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Backend architecture

Distributed systems

RESTful services

gRPC

SQL/Databases

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Docker

AWS

GCP

ECS

RDS

Kinesis

Datadog

Temporal

Cadence

AWS Step Functions

Job description

Seated, Inc. is seeking a mid‑level Software Development Engineer to strengthen our backend stack at our NYC Flatiron office.

You will build and scale the services powering Seated's growing platform, translating business needs into live features and working closely with product owners on design and production support. You’ll contribute to high‑performance, distributed architectures, own critical components, and partner with stakeholders to deliver reliable, deterministic workflows.