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# Software Development Engineer II

- **Company:** SEATED, LLC
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $160,000.0 - $180,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, Payment Systems, Fault Tolerance, Object-Oriented Software Development, Software Architecture, Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, Web Application Frameworks, Datadog, Grafana, Prompt Engineering, Spring-boot, Caching, Backend, Agentic-AI, Containerization, Information Technology, Low Latency, Restful APIs, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** October 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2be18a6a2a05ee69

## About the Role

* Bachelor's in Computer Science or Engineering; 3+ years of experience shipping production payment/fintech systems
 * Strong understanding of backend architecture and distributed systems design
 * Ability to quickly learn new payment technologies and apply them to real-world solutions and product design
 * Proficiency in Java and the Spring Boot framework; or equivalent expertise in a similar object-oriented language.
 * Experience building high-availability systems, including low-latency APIs and distributed RESTful/gRPC services; practiced in backward compatibility, deterministic behavior, and idempotency

Preferred Experience

 * Solid knowledge of distributed databases and scalable, fault-tolerant caching
 * Experience with AI agents and prompt engineering; able to build web features using agentic workflows and modern frontend frameworks
 * Cloud experience (AWS or GCP), containerization (Docker); familiarity with AWS services such as ECS, RDS, and Kinesis, plus observability tools like Datadog
 * Preferred: Experience with workflow orchestration engines (Temporal, Cadence, or AWS Step Functions)

## Description

We're fast-paced, innovative, and metric-driven, with a team passionate about delighting our customers. We're looking for a mid-level Software Development Engineer with a strong foundation in backend systems and distributed architectures. You'll help build and scale the systems that power Seated's growing platform.

You'll translate business needs into live features and partner directly with business owners who recognize the value of technology. You'll have a strong voice in product design and ownership across coding, QA, and production support.

Responsibilities

 * Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems that power our core platform services
 * Partner with business stakeholders to translate requirements into well-implemented, deterministic workflows and services
 * Build reliable, fault-tolerant distributed systems with strong coding, testing, observability, performance, and reliability practices
 * Contribute to technical design for high-performance, service-oriented architectures
 * Scale backend services and microservices for high throughput and low latency