Senior Backend Engineer, D2C Platform + Equity

Atoms; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid life and disability

Voluntary insurance: accident

Supplemental life insurance for family

401(k)

HSA

FSA

Discretionary vacation days

8 paid holidays

Job summary

Otter Grow is hiring a backend generalist to design and scale services powering our direct ordering, storefront configurations, and merchant tools. You’ll build scalable backend services in Java, design APIs, and work with frontend engineers, product managers, and designers to translate merchant needs into reliable backend logic.

Located in Los Angeles, this role is onsite, full-time, with equity and a bonus component. Strong fundamentals in distributed systems and cloud platforms are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Deep understanding of backend system design, APIs, data stores, microservices, concurrency, and distributed systems.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis).
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Architecture, build, and maintain highly scalable backend services in Java to power our direct ordering ecosystem and storefront configuration tools.
• Design and optimize robust, flexible APIs.
• Work closely with front-end engineers, product managers, and designers to translate merchant and consumer needs into reliable backend logic.

Skills

Backend engineering

API design

Distributed systems

Microservices

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Java

Go

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

Job description

Otter Grow is hiring a backend generalist to design and scale services powering our direct ordering, storefront configurations, and merchant tools. You’ll build scalable backend services in Java, design APIs, and work with frontend engineers, product managers, and designers to translate merchant needs into reliable backend logic.

Located in Los Angeles, this role is onsite, full-time, with equity and a bonus component. Strong fundamentals in distributed systems and cloud platforms are essential.