Senior Software Engineer, City Storage Systems - Seoul, South Korea
Who we are
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 or running your favorite global quick-service restaurant chains.
What you’ll do
We are looking for Backend Software Engineers to build elegant products on world-class technologies that bring our experience to millions of restaurateurs, anytime and anywhere. You will solve hard problems in distributed systems, workflows, compilers, big data, query optimization, storage, networking, or more. You will leverage open-source and proprietary technologies and use languages including Java, Python, Go, C++, TypeScript, and more. You will build and operate services with world-class availability, performance, and scalability. We have openings for Backend Software Engineers across teams on all parts of the engineering vertical, from customer-facing product teams to engineering-driven infrastructure teams.
Responsibilities
🍣 Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers and Frontend Engineers to conceptualize and build new features for our growing customer base.
🌯 Produce high-quality code by leading or contributing to large cross-functional projects that impact and drive business success.
🍔 Actively own features or systems and define their long-term health, keeping scalability at the forefront of technical designs.
🍕 Assist our skilled operations and business teams in triaging and resolving production issues.
🥐 Work with other engineers from various teams across verticals and review code.
🍩 Improve our engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
What we’re looking for
Required Qualifications
- 2+ years of industry software engineering experience developing and operating complex systems using common language(s) such as Java, Python, Go, C++, and TypeScript.
- Strong communicator who can explain complex topics to not only other engineers but also designers, product managers, and support.
- Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, threading, distributed systems, information retrieval, etc.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field, or equivalent training, fellowship, or work experience.
- A love for good food.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with the full life cycle of software development, from design and implementation to testing and deployment.
- Experience working with distributed systems and making technical architecture decisions.
- 5+ years of industry software engineering experience.
- Windows systems engineering experience preferred
- Preference will be given to those with development experience related to AI or LLM
- An appetite to help shape best engineering practices at an early-stage startup.
- Hands-on experience working in an innovative, fast-paced environment.
Why join us
- Growing market: You’ll be focused on a part of a market that’s projected to reach at least $500 billion by 2030 in the US alone.
- Changing the restaurant industry: You’ll be part of a team that helps restaurants succeed in online food delivery, and be on the forefront of helping our facilities scale.
- 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 customers’ success. Our company’s commitment to growing your Career of Substance includes regular written and verbal bidirectional feedback, clearly structured competencies, and opportunities to contribute to the team outside of your role’s primary responsibilities.
What else do you need to know
This role is based in our Seoul, South Korea 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 City Storage Systems.
Ready to join us as we serve those who serve others? #LI-Onsite
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What We Do
City Storage Systems (CSS) is a global food technology company building infrastructure for better food. Our mission is to help food businesses operate more efficiently and serve more people. We invest in and operate a portfolio of companies across real estate, software, logistics, and automation. Each business tackles critical challenges in the modern food economy. Our businesses include: CloudKitchens – the world’s largest owner and operator of food halls and delivery-only kitchens, enabling restaurants to quickly and affordably expand into new neighborhoods with efficient, purpose-built kitchen infrastructure. Otter – an all-in-one restaurant operating system that brings together point-of-sales, order management, online ordering, marketing tools, business insights, and more to help operators manage orders from everywhere and improve their bottom line. Picnic – a corporate meal delivery and catering platform that connects offices directly to our kitchens, creating steady demand for our restaurant partners in CloudKitchens while giving companies a high-quality lunch experience without the premium cost. Lab37 – a food production automation company building robotics that bring profitability, reliability, and consistency to food businesses. From kitchen real estate to restaurant software to food robotics, CSS supports those who serve others by building practical systems that help food businesses operate smarter and grow sustainably.
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