Senior Backend Engineer — AI Growth Platform (Seattle Onsite)

Atoms; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k)

HSA

Paid time off

Parental leave

Life and disability insurance

Pet insurance

Job summary

Otter is scaling its Marketing/Boost platform to automate restaurant growth across delivery platforms. You will build backend services for budgeting, campaigns, and cross-platform orchestration, and develop an AI-driven Boost engine that selects the best marketing for each storefront within budget.

The role emphasizes ownership of end-to-end services, reliability, and a production-oriented mindset, with opportunities to work across platforms and with external APIs.

Qualifications

• Experience building backend services for complex systems.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and API design (gRPC/REST).
• Experience with PostgreSQL, CockroachDB and writing performant queries.
• Proven ability to operate services in production with reliability in mind.
• Collaborative, product-minded approach to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Build backend services for campaign management, budgeting, and multi-channel orchestration across platforms.
• Develop AI-driven Boost engine to optimize marketing for each storefront within budget.
• Create durable workflows for campaign orchestration with auto-pause guardrails.
• Integrate with third-party delivery platforms and handle API reliability issues.
• Own services end-to-end: develop, instrument, debug, and improve reliability.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

APIs (gRPC/REST)

Production operations

Collaboration

Tools

PostgreSQL

CockroachDB

REST/gRPC

Docker/Kubernetes

Job description

Otter is scaling its Marketing/Boost platform to automate restaurant growth across delivery platforms. You will build backend services for budgeting, campaigns, and cross-platform orchestration, and develop an AI-driven Boost engine that selects the best marketing for each storefront within budget.

The role emphasizes ownership of end-to-end services, reliability, and a production-oriented mindset, with opportunities to work across platforms and with external APIs.