Senior Backend Software Engineer

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Company: Atoms (Picnic)
Location: New York, NY (in office 5 days per week)
Compensation: $176,000 - $242,000 + competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Visa transfers (OPT, H-1B transfer)

About Atoms (Picnic)

This role is with Picnic, which is reinventing lunch at work: it partners with top local restaurants and batches hundreds of orders so companies can offer high-quality, individually packed meals without fees or tips, making lunch seamless, affordable and enjoyable for employees, employers and restaurants.

The role is listed by Atoms, the company founded by Travis Kalanick after Uber, which brings Physical AI to industries including food (Atoms Food, formerly CloudKitchens), mining (Atoms Mining, formerly Pronto AI) and transport.

The Role

Picnic is looking for a Backend Engineer to architect and scale the systems behind its real-time logistics and operations. You will own technical decisions from architecture to production, build services for Picnic's web and mobile products, and take on logistics, routing, automation, scalability and reliability challenges.

What You Will Do

• Design, build and maintain backend systems in languages such as Java and Go.
• Lead major initiatives in vehicle routing optimization, logistics automation, scalability and reliability.
• Own backend architecture and solve complex, ambiguous, high-impact problems.
• Build and scale core APIs, services and data stores.
• Set best practices for testing, monitoring, observability and performance.
• Turn technical priorities into quarterly roadmaps with product and engineering leadership.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews and hands-on collaboration.

What You Bring

• Senior backend engineering experience building distributed systems
• Strong Java and/or Go
• Experience owning architecture and leading major technical initiatives
• Experience with APIs, data stores and production reliability
• Ability to work in the New York office 5 days a week

Nice to Have

• Logistics, routing or optimization experience

Tech Stack

Java, Go, distributed systems, APIs, data stores

REVENUE: 15% of first-year salary. Est. fee per hire $26K-$36K; 4 seat(s) = up to $125K if all filled.

TARGET COMPANIES (suggested): DoorDash, Uber Eats, Instacart, ezCater, Gopuff, Flexport.

BEST-FIT CANDIDATE: senior yrs; Java/Go backend; distributed systems; architecture ownership; visa: transfers only; location: NYC 5 days.