Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Checkmate is a restaurant technology solution provider that has continually evolved over time. They are seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable web applications while leveraging AI technologies to drive innovative features and improvements in their product platform.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to design, build, test, deploy, and maintain scalable web applications
- Leverage AI coding agents to accelerate product development and defect resolution
- Develop and maintain RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs
- Develop asynchronous application processing using tools like Sidekiq
- Build and maintain responsive, high-performance React.js interfaces and reusable components
- Write and optimize SQL queries across PostgreSQL/MySQL databases
- Improve application reliability, scalability, and long-term maintainability of large enterprise systems
- Create, and collaborate with other engineers on, technical specifications aligned against short term and long term Product roadmaps and enterprise architectural goals
- Use APM and observability tools to detect, diagnose, and fix performance bottlenecks
- Identify technical debt and drive practical solutions to pay down debt
- Own features and complex issues from product design through development, deployment, and monitoring
- Participate in all parts of the Product, Design, and Engineering processes building new features together in a collaborative pod-based environment
- Interact with our internal customers using your contributions to our software platform in support of our external customers
- Work with team members to identify, prioritize, and reduce technical debt and improve scalability and performance across the codebase
- Participate in architecture and technical design discussions across Product and Engineering
- Contribute to peer code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows
- Investigate and resolve outages with root-cause analysis and clear follow-up improvements
- Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering best practices using AI-led practices
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years of experience building enterprise level applications using Ruby on Rails
- 3+ years working with React.js or a related modern javascript frameworks
- 3+ years working within a 30+ team member sized engineering team
- 3+ years working 100% remote and a desire to continue working remotely
- 3+ years developing and operating applications on AWS
- 2+ years developing using AI coding agents including Claude Code or Codex
- Experience working using Docker locally
- Experience running enterprise level production workload apps on AWS
- Experience integrating with RESTful and GraphQL APIs
- Experience write raw SQL queries in a relational database
- Experience building asynchronous background job process across multiple tools/frameworks
- Experience with observability tools like Datadog, Sentry, or New Relic
- Experience writing automated unit tests having > 60% code coverage
- CI/CD development experience creating Github Actions
- Experience modernizing legacy Ruby on Rails applications
- Experience working in product led engineering organization
- Experience working in a multi-team / pod-based engineering team
- Works with an accountability and ownership mindset and calls out gaps where they exist
- Experience working in high-volume transactional production environments
- Exceptional at translating product requirement documents into detailed technical specifications
- Work US Eastern Timezone hours between 9am - 5pm ET
Benefits
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Retirement Plan (401k)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
- Short Term & Long Term Disability
- Training & Development
- Work From Home
Company Overview
Checkmate is a service in integrating 3rd party delivery platforms directly into POS systems. It was founded in 2016, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.itsacheckmate.com.