Senior Backend Engineer: AI-Powered Growth Platform

M8l; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k)

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Time Off policies

Equity awards

Bonus opportunity

Job summary

Otter is seeking a Software Engineer for the Marketing/Boost team to build the AI-powered platform that drives restaurant growth by automating marketing across delivery platforms. You will translate budgets and goals into real orders, building scalable backend services and an AI-driven Boost engine.

You will own end-to-end responsibilities, instrument and debug services, and ensure reliability at scale, working on on-site Seattle teams five days a week with collaboration across product teams.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in a general-purpose backend language (e.g., Java, Go, or Python).
• Solid foundation in distributed systems, microservices, and API design (gRPC and/or REST).
• Experience with databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, CockroachDB) and writing performant queries.
• Strong debugging skills and an instinct for reliability in systems that integrate with unpredictable third parties.
• Experience operating services in production, and a collaborative, product-minded approach.

Responsibilities

• Build backend services for campaign management, budgeting, and a multi-channel pipeline across delivery platforms.
• Develop the AI-driven Boost engine that analyzes stores, selects marketing, and optimizes within budget.
• Create durable workflows for campaign orchestration, budget enforcement, and auto-pause guardrails.
• Integrate with third-party delivery platforms and handle API reliability, retries, and reconciliation.
• Own services end-to-end: develop, instrument, debug, and improve reliability and performance.

Skills

Java

Go

Python

Distributed systems

APIs (gRPC/REST)

PostgreSQL

CockroachDB

Debugging

Production operations

Tools

PostgreSQL

CockroachDB

gRPC

REST

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Otter is seeking a Software Engineer for the Marketing/Boost team to build the AI-powered platform that drives restaurant growth by automating marketing across delivery platforms. You will translate budgets and goals into real orders, building scalable backend services and an AI-driven Boost engine.

You will own end-to-end responsibilities, instrument and debug services, and ensure reliability at scale, working on on-site Seattle teams five days a week with collaboration across product teams.