Senior Software Developer, Mid-Market

7shifts is an HR platform designed to help restaurant teams thrive. With an easy-to-use app and industry-specific solutions, 7shifts saves time, reduces errors, and helps keep costs in check for over 55,000 restaurants. Our mission is to simplify team management and improve performance for restaurants, with a long-term vision of creating a thriving restaurant industry through the power of connected & engaged teams.
As a Senior Software Developer, Mid-Market at 7shifts, you'll be one of the founding engineers on our mid-market squad — the team responsible for building the foundational systems that serve restaurant groups with real complexity: multiple locations, layered permissions, and the need for rollup visibility across their entire operation. You'll work closely with a product counterpart, the data team, and report into a Director of Software Development.
The work is greenfield in the places that count. You'll define the data structures that power rollup reporting for multi-location operators and design a permissions and authorization system that properly supports role-based access control (RBAC) at scale, going meaningfully beyond what exists today. The expectation is a beta of rollup reports delivered across a few dimensions and the architectural path for the permissions system defined and in early development.

This is not a backlog of tickets. It's a chance to shape systems used every day by over 1.5 million restaurant workers.
What You’ll Do   Design and build the data structures and pipelines that power rollup reporting for multi-location restaurant groups, owning the work from schema design through beta delivery
Architect and lead early development on a new permissions and authorization system, mapping the migration path from what exists today and sequencing the transition safely
Partner with your product counterpart to sequence, estimate, and prioritize across two foundational work streams, surfacing tradeoffs and risks early
Communicate architectural decisions and status clearly to your team, the data team, and leadership, including when the plan needs to change
Work alongside AI agents as part of how you build: spec-driven development, agentic harnesses for code generation and debugging, and deliberate agent use in your daily workflow
Raise the technical bar of the squad through code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on guidance for teammates
What You Bring   7–10 years of experience building production software, including work where data modeling or permissions and authorization were central to how the system worked, not just adjacent to it
You've owned systems end to end: from technical design through delivery, support, and iteration, making real decisions when things broke or needed to change
A track record of turning ambiguous, complex problems into clear, maintainable solutions without waiting for everything to be defined
Comfort in large, evolving codebases, with the judgment to improve them incrementally while still shipping progress
Strong technical judgment when balancing speed, quality, performance, and long-term maintainability, especially against a concrete timeline
Clear communication and the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and data partners
Experience mentoring developers or leading technical discussions that raise the quality of decisions across a team
It’d Be Even Cooler If You Had   Hands-on experience with data lake or warehouse tooling such as Snowflake, Big Query, or AWS equivalents
Background in a domain where accuracy, reliability, and real-time data were business-critical
This role is an existing vacancy and is part of our current hiring plan
Our Commitment To Our Shifties   Opportunity:
Our product is evolving in exciting ways, and…