Onsite Backend Engineer — High-Scale Menu Platform

M8l; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 224,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision insurance

401(k)

HSA and Flexible Spending Accounts

Time Off policies

Company-paid life and disability

Job summary

Otter in Mountain View, CA seeks a backend-focused software engineer to advance a high-scale restaurant menu platform. You will build data-driven features, design scalable services, and collaborate with product, engineering, and support teams to ensure reliability and performance across distributed systems.

Requirements include a BS in CS (or equivalent) and 4+ years of experience, with strong Java expertise and experience in large-scale, high-traffic applications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong background in building scalable and reliable distributed systems.
• Experience building large-scale, high-traffic applications.
• Proficiency in Java and modern backend development practices.

Responsibilities

• Build data-driven backend features for menu platform.
• Contribute to planning and strategy for tools and internal platforms.
• Design, implement, and test backend services.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and support teams.
• Write, debug, and maintain high-quality code.
• Architect scalable systems for large workloads.
• Improve platform reliability, performance, and developer experience.

Skills

Distributed systems

Large-scale applications

Java

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Job description

Otter in Mountain View, CA seeks a backend-focused software engineer to advance a high-scale restaurant menu platform. You will build data-driven features, design scalable services, and collaborate with product, engineering, and support teams to ensure reliability and performance across distributed systems.

Requirements include a BS in CS (or equivalent) and 4+ years of experience, with strong Java expertise and experience in large-scale, high-traffic applications.