Senior Software Engineer

Atlas is building the operating system for restaurants — the easiest way to start, run, and grow any restaurant, both online and offline. The team at Atlas previously built Grain, a venture-backed online restaurant that grew to millions in revenue. Atlas helps restaurants power online storefronts, POS systems, third-party logistics, sync with food platforms, connect with other tools, leverage AI, and much more

Existing customers include SaladStop, Killiney, and Haidilao, and we’re adding brands like Casa Vostra, Artichoke, and Wewa — with new restaurants joining every week

The team and investors come from Grain, Accenture, Microsoft, Udacity, McKinsey, Salesforce, Y Combinator, and others

Read our hiring memo here

Role

You’ll work across the stack, from backend APIs and databases to frontend interfaces and product flows. You’ll collaborate closely with designers, product managers, and operations teams to bring ideas to life, and with the infrastructure team to make sure what we build scales reliably

What you'll do

• Build and maintain features that power hundreds of restaurants across the web and mobile
• Talk to users, understand their problems, and design solutions they’ll love
• Work across backend (Ruby, Postgres) and frontend (React, React Native and JavaScript) systems
• Write clean, reliable, and maintainable code that’s easy to build upon
• Collaborate with designers, operations, and fellow engineers to ship quickly and safely
• Continuously improve performance, reliability, and developer experience

Required skills and experience

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• You write high-quality, well-tested code
• Strong coding skills in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript
• Experience working with PostgreSQL
• Experience in GraphQL or is willing to learn
• Focusing on delighting customers, having abnormally high standards and being extremely reliable

You'll do great here if

• You care deeply about both product and engineering craft
• You’ve built or scaled web applications using Ruby on Rails and React
• You enjoy working closely with users and seeing your work in the real world
• You think in systems, balancing product intuition with technical depth
• You like ownership—seeing projects through from idea to rollout

What's in it for you

• Work with a fast-growing, at the same time, lean and mean team, to make a real-world impact
• Have a lot of ownership and drive your own results and progression
• Smart people who sweat the details and push for the highest standards
• Training and in-house opportunities to help you grow
• Other benefits include a competitive compensation package, birthday leave and sick leave

What’s the interview process like?

1. Quick 45-minute screening interview to make sure we are on the same page. Here we try to briefly understand cultural fit, where you’re at, what you’re optimising for, strengths and weaknesses, relevant experience, etc.
2. 1-1.5-hour deeper interview with the functional lead. There may be some overlapping questions here because we don’t like comparing notes between interviews to keep the process independent (for technical roles).
3. 6-8 hour practical interview (for technical roles).
4. Reference interviews (both from you and us, finding mutual connections).
5. Optional, but we also like to have a “cultural immersion” with the rest of the team over a meal/drink if possible.