Backend Engineer Los Angeles

About Us

At City Storage Systems, we're building Infrastructure for Better Food. We help restaurateurs around the world succeed in online food delivery. Our goal is to make food more affordable, higher quality and convenient for everyone. We're changing the game for restaurateurs, whether they’re entrepreneurs opening their first restaurant all the way through to your favorite global quick-service restaurant chains.

As a Backend Engineer, you’ll design, implement, and optimize systems that power mission-critical applications. Your role will adapt to your strengths and interests, with opportunities to focus on:

• Infrastructure
  :
  Build and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance systems to ensure operational reliability.
• Platform
  :
  Develop robust APIs and developer tools to improve team efficiency and scalability.
• Product
  :
  Engineer backend services that support customer-facing applications and deliver seamless user experiences.

Core Responsibilities
:

• Architect and implement scalable backend systems and APIs.
• Ensure high system performance, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and documentation to maintain high-quality standards.
• Mentor junior engineers or take on leadership roles, depending on your seniority.

We value diversity of experience and are looking for individuals passionate about solving complex problems.

Basic Qualifications
:

• Proficiency in backend programming languages like Java or Go
  .
• Familiarity with relational and/or No
  
  SQL databases (e.g.,
  PostgreSQL
  , MongoDB
  , Redis
  ).
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS
  , Google Cloud
  , or Azure
  .
• Understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications (for Senior Levels):

• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
  .
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops practices.
• Exposure to large-scale data processing or event-driven architectures.
• Leadership experience in team projects or mentoring roles.

• Demand for online food delivery is growing really fast! In the last 5 years, just in the US, the overall market has expanded 10X from $10B to $100B, and could expand to $500bn- $1T by 2030.
• Changing the restaurant industry:
  You’ll be part of a team that helps restaurants succeed in online food delivery.
• Collaborative environment:
  You will receive support and guidance from experienced colleagues and managers, helping you to learn, grow and achieve your goals, and you’ll work closely with other teams to ensure our customer’s success.

What else you need to know
:

This role is based in our Los Angeles office location. We believe that people do their best work when they are together. As a company, we’re in the marketplace of ideas and innovation. When you’re constantly innovating, changing how an industry works, inventing new products and processes - and we are doing all these things - we believe we’re better as a team in-person.

That’s why all of our teams (except for our field-based roles) are now working from one of our office locations 5 days a week. Looking forward to sharing more about a Career of Substance at CSS.

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