Backend Engineer, POS & Integrations

Presto Phoenix, Inc. is a leading Voice AI company for restaurant drive-thrus, transforming the drive-thru into a revenue engine through AI-driven ordering, personalization, and operational efficiency. They operate with rapid iteration cycles, solving real-world problems where latency, reliability, and accuracy impact millions of customer interactions.

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: $110K–$150K/yr

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable APIs, services, and data pipelines.
• Build systems that ingest, normalize, and sync POS and menu data across multiple integrations.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of production systems.
• Optimize systems for latency, scalability, and uptime.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues.
• Implement best practices for security and data protection.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.
• Develop reusable and testable components with strong emphasis on test coverage.
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices.
• Design backend architectures and make key technical decisions.
• Set up and manage infrastructure for owned services.
• Work with event-driven systems and data synchronization patterns.
• Partner with product, AI, and integration teams to deliver new features.
• Translate real-world restaurant workflows into scalable technical solutions.
• Contribute to technical documentation and system design discussions.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in backend or distributed systems engineering.
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages (Node.js, Python, Java, Go, Ruby).
• Strong experience designing and building RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs.
• Deep understanding of APIs, webhooks, and data synchronization patterns.
• Experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB) and caching systems (Redis).
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of system performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Experience with Git and modern development workflows.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) program.
• Paid time off (PTO).
• Equity and benefits.