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Senior Backend Software Engineer


Job Location:

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 24 September 2026 (19 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 22 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Company: Atoms (Picnic)
Location: New York NY (in office 5 days per week)
Compensation: $176000 - $242000 competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Visa transfers (OPT H-1B transfer)

About Atoms (Picnic)

This role is with Picnic which is reinventing lunch at work: it partners with top local restaurants and batches hundreds of orders so companies can offer high-quality individually packed meals without fees or tips making lunch seamless affordable and enjoyable for employees employers and restaurants.

The role is listed by Atoms the company founded by Travis Kalanick after Uber which brings Physical AI to industries including food (Atoms Food formerly CloudKitchens) mining (Atoms Mining formerly Pronto AI) and transport.

The Role

Picnic is looking for a Backend Engineer to architect and scale the systems behind its real-time logistics and operations. You will own technical decisions from architecture to production build services for Picnics web and mobile products and take on logistics routing automation scalability and reliability challenges.

What You Will Do
  • Design build and maintain backend systems in languages such as Java and Go.
  • Lead major initiatives in vehicle routing optimization logistics automation scalability and reliability.
  • Own backend architecture and solve complex ambiguous high-impact problems.
  • Build and scale core APIs services and data stores.
  • Set best practices for testing monitoring observability and performance.
  • Turn technical priorities into quarterly roadmaps with product and engineering leadership.
  • Mentor engineers through design reviews code reviews and hands-on collaboration.
What You Bring
  • Senior backend engineering experience building distributed systems
  • Strong Java and/or Go
  • Experience owning architecture and leading major technical initiatives
  • Experience with APIs data stores and production reliability
  • Ability to work in the New York office 5 days a week
Nice to Have
  • Logistics routing or optimization experience
Tech Stack

Java Go distributed systems APIs data stores


REVENUE: 15% of first-year salary. Est. fee per hire $26K-$36K; 4 seat(s) up to $125K if all filled.

TARGET COMPANIES (suggested): DoorDash Uber Eats Instacart ezCater Gopuff Flexport.

BEST-FIT CANDIDATE: senior yrs; Java/Go backend; distributed systems; architecture ownership; visa: transfers only; location: NYC 5 days.