Senior Backend Software Engineer (Seattle)
Quick facts
- Pay
- $167,000 - $230,000 base salary, plus target annual performance bonus of $45,000
- Type
- Full-time
- Location
- Seattle, Washington
- Background
- Bachelor's degree
- Skills
- Java
- Industry
- Information Technology — 671 open jobs
- Visa in listing
- H-1B
- Apply
- Free to apply — never pay anyone for a job offer or visa sponsorship
Job description
About the company
Our client builds automated systems that help restaurant operators recover revenue from delivery errors, refunds, and chargebacks. The product handles the full recovery workflow, from data ingestion and decisions through filing, tracking, and resolution. The team is looking for a senior engineer to build reliable systems that improve outcomes for restaurant customers.
The role
We are hiring a Senior Backend Software Engineer to build scalable services for automated restaurant revenue recovery. You will lead backend work in Java while contributing to customer-facing status and outcome experiences. This is a systems-focused role with meaningful ownership over architecture, uptime, experimentation, and the tools that help the business measure wins and dollars recovered.
What you'll do
- Build scalable Java backend services for data ingestion, decisioning, filing, tracking, and resolution workflows.
- Contribute to frontend status and outcome experiences that make the product’s work clear to customers.
- Design systems for reliable automation, integrations, and operational scale.
- Improve architecture, testing, observability, uptime, and system performance.
- Run experiments and build measurement that clarifies win rates and recovered revenue.
- Partner with product, data, operations, and support teams to deliver durable customer outcomes.
Requirements
What we're looking for
- 5 to 10 years of software engineering experience, primarily building with Java.
- An undergraduate degree in computer science or another STEM discipline.
- Experience at a leading technology company such as Google, Amazon, Meta, Uber, Lyft, or a comparable technology company.
- Strong distributed-systems and system-design experience.
- A record of sustained ownership and follow-through in prior roles.
- Experience building, testing, and operating reliable production systems.
Bonus points
- Experience with automation, integrations, payment disputes, or revenue-recovery workflows.
- Full-stack experience, including customer-facing product surfaces.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and continuous delivery practices.
Benefits
Compensation and benefits
- Base salary of $167K to $230K, plus long-term incentive equity.
- Target annual performance bonus of $45K, paid 20% in cash and 80% in long-term incentive equity.
- Exceptional performance can qualify for bonus outcomes of up to five times the target. This is not guaranteed.
Location and work model
- Five days per week onsite in Seattle.
- Full-time position.
- Existing U.S. work authorization is required; H-1B transfers are supported.
Visa sponsorship record
No public sponsorship records foundWe didn't find H-1B, H-1B1, E-3 or green card (PERM) filings under the name Raydar in the Department of Labor and USCIS data. That doesn't mean the job can't be sponsored — the company may file under a different legal name, be new to sponsorship, or sponsor a visa that isn't in these datasets (for example H-2B or J-1).
Tip: ask the recruiter early, in writing, which visa they sponsor and whether they cover the legal and filing fees.
Which visas can work for this job
Occupation: Software Developers (SOC 15-1252).
- Mentioned in the listing
H-1B
- H-1B cap-exempt employer
Regular cap-subject employer — a new H-1B needs to win the lottery in March (unless you already hold cap-counted H-1B status).
- TN (citizens of Canada and Mexico)
This kind of role may fit the USMCA profession “Computer Systems Analyst (or Engineer, for engineering-degree holders)” — it depends on the actual duties. No lottery, no cap; you need the matching degree or license.
- E-3 (Australia) and H-1B1 (Chile, Singapore)
Same degree requirement as H-1B, but no lottery and a separate quota that is rarely filled.
- O-1 (extraordinary ability)
For candidates with awards, publications, press, a high salary or critical roles at distinguished organizations. No cap, no lottery; the employer files a petition.
- STEM OPT extension (F-1 students)
Requires an E-Verify employer. We didn't find this company in the E-Verify list — ask HR.
Salary vs prevailing wage
Level II (qualified)Software Developers · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. Annual prevailing wages set by the Department of Labor (OFLC).
| Level | Prevailing wage | H-1B lottery odds* |
|---|---|---|
| Level I | $111,613 | ~15% |
| Level II | $143,104 | ~31% |
| Level III | $174,595 | ~46% |
| Level IV | $206,086 | ~61% |
This job pays $167,000–$230,000 a year — that's Level II (qualified). In the wage-weighted H-1B lottery a Level II registration gets 2 entries; estimated selection chance about 31%.
* Odds are DHS projections for the FY2027 wage-weighted lottery (actual results vary by year and employer). Since the FY2027 cap season the H-1B lottery is weighted by wage level: Level I = 1 entry, II = 2, III = 3, IV = 4. The level is set by the offered wage against the prevailing wage for the occupation and worksite. Separately, a $100,000 fee for new H-1B petitions for workers outside the US was announced in 2025; as of September 2026 a federal court ruling keeps it unenforceable while appeals continue — check the current status.
Sources: U.S. Department of Labor OFLC disclosure data (H-1B/H-1B1/E-3 LCA, PERM), OFLC prevailing wage data, USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, E-Verify participating employers. Data loaded: LCA FY2024–FY2026, PERM, USCIS Data Hub, OFLC wages; updated 2026-10-03. Employers are matched by name, so records of companies with similar names can occasionally be mixed up. This is general information, not legal advice — talk to an immigration attorney about your case.