Fullstack Engineer

Blackbird is looking for a Senior Fullstack Engineer to own Flycar, our restaurant payments terminal used by thousands of restaurants. You’ll build the software servers and managers rely on during every service, where downtime means a dining room that can’t close checks.

This is a Next.js/TypeScript monorepo powering multiple apps across payments, loyalty, and restaurant operations. You’ll work primarily in Flycar but contribute across the platform.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end development of Flycar - UI, API integration, WebSocket flows, and fallback handling when things go wrong
• Build interfaces that work reliably across FSR and QSR environments with inconsistent hardware, spotty networks, and dozens of POS configurations
• Drive frontend architecture decisions - you’ll shape how we build, not just what we build
• Debug real-time payment flows that span our terminal, mobile app, and backend services

• 6+ years with React and TypeScript
• Experience with real-time data (WebSockets, polling) and graceful degradation on unreliable networks
• Track record shipping software where failure has immediate, visible consequences - payments, POS, fintech, or similar
• Comfort working across the stack: reading API contracts, debugging queries, reasoning about system design
• Strong ownership instincts in a small, fast-moving team where scope is fluid

Nice to Haves

• Experience with payments infrastructure, POS systems, or restaurant/hospitality tech
• Background in multi-tenant systems or hardware-constrained environments (terminals, kiosks)
• Exposure to blockchain, crypto, or web3
• Experience with Datadog, Amplitude, or similar observability/analytics platforms

Depending on your work location and experience the target annual salary for this position can range from: $180,000-$240,000 USD. This range does not include the equity component of the overall compensation package. Disclosure in accordance with New York City’s Pay Transparency Law.

Blackbird Labs is a loyalty and payments platform establishing meaningful connections between the world’s best restaurants and their customers.

Served up in 2022 by Ben Leventhal, co-founder of Eater and Resy, Blackbird offers a fully customizable loyalty programming platform for restaurants and a consumer app designed to make every guest feel like a bonafide VIP no matter where they dine. Backed by Union Square Ventures, a16z, Amex Ventures, Variant Fund, and other forward-thinking investors, Blackbird is out to revolutionize the restaurant industry.

About Our Team:

At Blackbird, our values guide everything we do and our talent principles define the key traits we seek in our employees.

We have passion for our product - committed to our mission and instinctively think like and go the extra mile for our customers. We are elite performers - striving for excellence, going above and beyond to achieve exceptional results, and learning quickly with horsepower, drive, and grit. We make others better - taking initiative to elevate others, giving and receiving feedback, and championing a culture of growth. We hold one another accountable to living out our talent principles as we march together to achieving our mission.