Senior Backend Engineer

🔥 6 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $169.7k - $220.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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ChowNow

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2011

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 $21M Series C on 2019-05

eCommerce • SaaS • B2B

ChowNow is a platform dedicated to simplifying online ordering for restaurants. It provides a host of tools designed to manage orders efficiently, improve profitability, and enhance the visibility of restaurants through branded mobile apps, integrated ordering systems, and marketing solutions. Restaurants can use ChowNow to create commission-free online ordering directly on their websites and apps, integrate with their POS systems, and leverage advanced reporting tools for analytics. ChowNow focuses on driving direct orders to help restaurants retain full control over their customer relationships and data while cutting down on costly third-party commissions. By offering automated marketing tools and loyalty programs, ChowNow supports restaurants in growing their customer base and increasing repeat business.

📋 Description

• Help build, deploy and monitor ChowNow’s BE applications. • Work closely with other disciplines to build new features with an emphasis on quality. • Follow best practices and continuously improve the development process. • Reports to a Lead Software Engineer; No Direct Reports.

🎯 Requirements

• You have 5+ years of experience building SaaS products, e-commerce platforms, or similar online systems, with expertise in Python. • You leverage AI development tools to accelerate your work, and exercise good judgment about where they help and where human review is essential • You've designed and versioned public or partner-facing APIs, balancing backward compatibility with the need to evolve them • You have experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) and containerized deployments • You embrace experimentation and make decisions based on data and evidence • You've built and maintained event-driven or asynchronous systems (e.g., message queues, background job processing) that handle high transaction volume • You are excited about new technologies, are able to judge the maturity of the latest innovations, and find practical use for them • You've diagnosed and resolved production performance issues — slow queries, memory leaks, or scaling bottlenecks — and put guardrails in place to prevent recurrence • You strive for constant improvement and encourage others to build quality software • You are comfortable with transparency and open lines of communication, both within your team and with external stakeholders • You enjoy being the “glue” between product teams and infrastructure • You are passionate about observability, process improvements, CI/CD, and deployment frequency

🏖️ Benefits

• Ongoing training and growth opportunities. • A "Best Place to Work" winner multiple times where we focus on creating a great employee experience. • Rock solid medical, dental, and vision plans. • Mental Health Coverage - we offer several programs to support your mental health and wellness goals. • Unlimited Paid Vacation. We expect you to work hard, but still enjoy your personal life • 7 weeks of baby bonding time for all new parents (within the first year of birth or adoption), 8 Weeks of Paid Pregnancy Leave. • 401(k) Matching • Employer-contributing student loan assistance program or continuing education reimbursement program • Employee Stock Incentive Plan. • Pet insurance for your fur babies • Consistent & fair leadership: we’ll share info, set clear goals, show you respect, and treat everyone fairly. • Enough freedom to spread your wings while still holding you accountable.