Senior Full Stack Engineer (GoReact)

SpotOn


Job Location:

Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 123 - 175
Posted on: 10 days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Engineering

Job Summary

About SpotOn

Were not just building restaurant tech were giving independent restaurants the tools to compete and win. From our award-winning point-of-sale to AI-powered profit tools everything we do helps operators boost profit work smarter and keep their best people. And every solution is backed by real humans who actually give a sh*t about helping restaurants succeed.

  • Named the #1 Restaurant POS by G2 (Fall 2025) based on ratings from real users

  • Rated the top-rated point-of-sale (POS) for restaurants bars retail and small businesses by Capterra users

  • Awarded Great Places to Work and Built Ins Best Workplaces for multiple years running

We move fast care hard and fight for independent restaurant operators to do what they love and love doing it. If youre looking to make an impact with heart and hustle SpotOn is the place for you.

Senior Full Stack Engineer

About the Role

Were looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our Restaurant POS team at SpotOn. Youll work across our Go backend and React frontend to build features that power thousands of restaurants. This is a high-impact role where your code runs in production environments serving real guests and staff every day.

What Youll Do

  • Design and implement features spanning the full stack: Go services REST/WebSocket APIs and React UI

  • Work across multiple product surfaces including Front of House (POS terminals) and Back of House (management tools)

  • Collaborate with product design and other engineering teams to ship features end-to-end

  • Contribute to system reliability performance and scalability as we grow our merchant base

  • Participate in code reviews architecture discussions and on-call rotation

  • Help modernize our frontend architecture

What Were Looking For

Required:

  • 5 years of professional software engineering experience

  • Strong proficiency in Go (or similar statically-typed backend language with willingness to learn Go quickly)

  • Strong proficiency in React and TypeScript

  • Experience with MongoDB or other document databases

  • Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs

  • Comfort working in a large established codebase with multiple contributors

  • Experience with real-time communication patterns (WebSockets message queues)

  • Solid understanding of state management in complex frontend applications

Preferred:

  • Experience with NATS or similar messaging systems

  • Experience with gRPC and protocol buffers

  • Experience in hospitality tech payments or POS systems

  • Experience with Webpack monorepo tooling or complex build pipelines

  • Familiarity with Docker Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS)

  • Experience with observability tools (Grafana Prometheus distributed tracing)

Tech Stack

  • Backend: Go MongoDB 4.4 NATS gRPC WebSockets

  • Frontend: React 16 TypeScript 5.5 Webpack 5 Zustand ( legacy MobX migration in progress)

  • Infrastructure: AWS Docker Kubernetes

  • Tooling: LaunchDarkly Grafana GitHub Actions Jira

Compensation:

  • Our base pay range starts at $123000 -$175000 for this role

  • Please note the salary range listed is just one component of a competitive compensation package which includes a company stock plan

  • Offers will be reflective of the candidates location and experience.

Benefits:

At SpotOn we put people above everything else. Were known for our innovative software and technology solutions but we stand out because of the hard-working humans behind the tech. We cant take care of our clients without taking care of our employees first and thats why we invest in you with a competitive benefits package which includes:

  • Medical Dental and Vision Insurance

  • 401k with company match

  • RSUs

  • Paid vacation 10 company holidays sick time and volunteer time off

  • Employee Resource Groups to build community and inclusion at work

We will never ask candidates to pay fees purchase equipment or share sensitive personal or financial information during the hiring process. All legitimate communication from our recruiting team will come from an official company email address (@). If something seems suspicious please contact us at .

SpotOn is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified candidates are considered for employment without regard to race religion gender gender identity sexual orientation national origin age military or veteran status disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Work authorization in the U.S. is required. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

SpotOn is an E-Verify company.


Required Experience:

Senior IC

About SpotOnWere not just building restaurant tech were giving independent restaurants the tools to compete and win. From our award-winning point-of-sale to AI-powered profit tools everything we do helps operators boost profit work smarter and keep their best people. And every solution is backed by ...