Wonder-posted 3 months ago
Full-time • Senior
New York, NY
1,001-5,000 employees
Food Services and Drinking Places

We're looking for a product-minded Staff Backend Engineer to drive our restaurant platform forward. As an individual contributor on the Wonder Tech Team, you will be critical in developing our Kitchen Display System- the primary system that will power our restaurants as we expand from tens to hundreds of locations across the country. Specifically, you will be a key player in our kitchen sequencing initiative, building and optimizing the systems that determine how orders are prepared. You will design and implement features that optimize complex operational flows, enable operational analytics, and simplify the preparation of high quality food across dozens of restaurants and hundreds of menu items.

  • Working closely with operations researchers, product managers, product designers, and other engineers to design and build transformative systems including our kitchen sequencing and kitchen display system
  • Leading technical projects from planning through execution and delivery
  • Collaborating with Operations Researchers and Product Managers to translate advanced optimization algorithms into robust, scalable, and production ready code
  • Enhance our KDS simulator, transforming it into a standalone, modular tool for offline research and 'what-if' analysis
  • Develop and maintain data infrastructure for real-time and historical data inputs, including lab or data, appliance capacity, and line build times, to feed our sequencing algorithms
  • Design and implement robust monitoring, alerting, and telemetry systems to ensure the operational excellence of our sequencing services
  • Designing and maintaining distributed systems comprised of both synchronous and asynchronous services, as well as data infrastructure with varied consistency guarantees and performance characteristics
  • Working with public cloud infrastructure such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
  • Working with modern orchestration and containerization products such as Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • 5-8+ years of experience in software engineering
  • Proven experience in implementing high-quality systems
  • Deep proficiency with one or more modern programming languages: Java, Scala, Kotlin, C#, C++, etc.
  • Deep proficiency with both relational and document databases: MySQL, Postgres, CosmosDB, MongoDB, etc.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical challenges.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Strong working knowledge of Java and the JVM
  • Experience with microservice architectures
  • Competitive salary package including equity and 401K
  • Multiple medical, dental, and vision plans to meet all of our employees' needs
  • Hybrid model requiring 3 days a week in the office
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