About Wonder

Everything’s on the menu at Wonder. Except compromise.

The Wonder app is the premiere platform to feed every craving, all in one order. Our 25+ award-winning restaurant partners span every cuisine you can think of, from Greek to Thai, and come from the minds of the best chefs in the industry—Bobby Flay, José Andrés, Marcus Samuelsson, and more.

And our diners don’t have to choose just one: they can mix and match dishes from as many Made by Wonder restaurants as they’d like, or order from neighborhood gems near them. Everything is made to order at our brick-and-mortar locations across the East Coast and delivered fast and free, and more locations are opening every week.

The best in the business are coming to Wonder, working every day to make us the destination for every mealtime moment. Join a team of technology, culinary, and logistics pioneers, backed by top-tier venture capitalists, and help us make great food more accessible.

About the Role

We're looking for a product- minded Staff Backend Engineer to drive our restaurant platform forward. As an individual contributor on the Wonder Tech Team, you will be critical in developing our Kitchen Display System— the primary system that will power our restaurants as we expand from tens to hundreds of locations across the country. Specifically, you will be a key player in our kitchen sequencing initiative, building and optimizing the systems that determine how orders are prepared. You will design and implement features that optimize complex operational flows, enable operational analytics, and simplify the preparation of high quality food across dozens of restaurants and hundreds of menu items.

Key Responsibilities

• Working closely with operations researchers, product managers, product designers, and other engineers to design and build transformative systems including our kitchen sequencing and kitchen display system

• Leading technical projects from planning through execution and delivery

• Collaborating with Operations Researchers and Product Managers to translate advanced optimization algorithms into robust, scalable, and production ready code

• Enhance our KDS simulator, transforming it into a standalone, modular tool for offline research and "what-if" analysis

• Develop and maintain data infrastructure for real-time and historical data inputs, including lab or data, appliance capacity, and line build times, to feed our sequencing algorithms

• Design and implement robust monitoring, alerting, and telemetry systems to ensure the operational excellence of our sequencing services

• Designing and maintaining distributed systems comprised of both synchronous and asynchronous services, as well as data infrastructure with varied consistency guarantees and performance characteristics

• Working with public cloud infrastructure such as Azure, AWS, or GCP

• Working with modern orchestration and containerization products such as Kubernetes, Docker, etc.

The Experience you Have

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

• 5-8+ years of experience in software engineering

• Proven experience in implementing high-quality systems

• Deep proficiency with one or more modern programming languages: Java, Scala, Kotlin, C#, C++, etc.

• Deep proficiency with both relational and document databases: MySQL, Postgres, CosmosDB, MongoDB, etc.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical challenges.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

What You're Passionate About

• Creating clean, well-documented, and easily maintainable code

• Achieving operational excellence in the development lifecycle

• Robust integration and unit tests that support confident deployment of complex feature and system changes

• Strong opinions on CI/CD and how application teams work within the platform

• Understanding every aspect of your systems, particularly through the collection of telemetry data

Bonus Points

• Strong working knowledge of Java and the JVM

• Experience with microservice architectures

Base Salary: $208,500 per year.

Wonder uses geographic-specific salary structures, which means the salary offered may vary depending on where the job is located. The final salary offer will take into account various factors, such as the candidate's skills, education, training, credentials, and experience.

Our hybrid model requires 3 days a week in the office. That said, many team members choose to come in more often to take advantage of in-person collaboration and connection. You're welcome—and encouraged—to be in the office up to 5 days a week if it works for you.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary package including equity and 401K. Additionally, we provide multiple medical, dental, and vision plans to meet all of our employees' needs as well as many benefits and perks that are not listed.

A final note

At Wonder, we believe that in order to build the best team, we must hire using an objective lens. We are committed to fair hiring practices where we hire people for their potential and advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion. As such, we do not discriminate or make decisions based on your race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. If you have a disability, please let your recruiter know how we can make your interview process work best for you.

We look forward to hearing from you! We'll contact you via email or text to schedule interviews and share information about your candidacy.