Senior Scala/Python Engineer (Hybrid)
Rewards Network
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Job Description
For 41 years, Rewards Network has been helping restaurants grow revenue, increase traffic, and boost customer engagement through innovative financial, marketing services, and premier dining rewards programs. By offering unique card-linked offers, we introduce diners to fantastic restaurant experiences, leveraging advanced technology and data analytics to deliver value to restaurants, diners, and our strategic partners' loyalty programs.
Our Culture
At Rewards Network, you'll be part of a driven and diverse team that excels in collaboration, issue resolution, and taking ownership of both personal growth and the company's success. We take pride in partnering with the world's most powerful loyalty programs to drive full-price paying customers to local restaurants through marketing services and flexible funding options. Our engaging and rewarding environment is designed to help you gain your full potential.
Job Overview
The Senior Software Engineer (Platform Team) joins a dynamic group responsible for designing and developing scalable back-end systems that power Rewards Network’s dining and transaction processing platform. This role contributes to building robust, functional programming-driven services, ensuring seamless rewards delivery and exceptional partner experiences for millions of users. We’re open to hiring at the mid to senior level based on experience.
This is a hybrid position that requires in office presence 3 days a week (Tuesday-Thursday) in Chicago.
What you’ll bring to the table: (Responsibilities)
- Lead the development of scalable back-end systems to support platform services.
- Architect RESTful APIs and microservices using functional programming to ensure reliability and maintainability.
- Build real-time data pipelines to enable efficient platform operations.
- Optimize databases for performance and data integrity.
- Mentor team members on functional programming practices and system design for high-quality, testable code.
- Collaborate with DevOps and data teams to align on platform performance and operational needs.
- Implement security measures to safeguard sensitive platform data.
- Oversee projects from design to deployment, ensuring alignment with business goals.
- Enhance CI/CD processes to maintain platform reliability.
- Research advanced functional programming techniques to improve system performance.
- 7+ years of experience in back-end software development, with at least 3 years focused on functional programming.
- Expert proficiency in Scala or other functional programming languages for building complex back-end systems.
- Strong experience with functional programming libraries, including Cats Effect, for concurrent and scalable applications.
- Advanced skill in designing RESTful APIs and microservices with functional paradigms.
- Proficiency in event streaming systems like Kafka for real-time processing.
- Expertise in optimizing relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) for high-throughput environments.
- Ability to write clean, testable code adhering to functional programming principles.
- Deep knowledge of security practices for critical systems.
- Proven ability to lead technical projects and mentor engineers across teams.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized environments (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with Typelevel ecosystem (preferred).
- Experience building applications using Python (preferred).
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience (e.g., coding bootcamp or self-taught expertise).
Comprehensive benefits package, which includes:
- This is a full-time, exempt position. The base salary range for this role in Chicago is $130,000–$170,000 annually, depending on level (mid-level or senior), as well as candidate experience, skills, and other factors. This role is also eligible for an annual bonus target of 10%, bringing total target compensation to $143,000–$187,000.
- Competitive Time Off Benefits: including flexible PTO, 11 company holidays, and parental leave.
- Generous dining reimbursement when you dine with our restaurant clients
- 401(k) plan with a company match
- Two medical plan options- Standard PPO or High Deductible Health Plan (HSA with company match for HDHP participants)
- Partnership with Rx n Go, offering certain prescriptions for free
- Two dental plan options and a vision plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts and a pre-tax commuter benefit program
- Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity Insurance Plans
- Short Term and Long Term disability
- Company-paid life insurance and AD&D insurance, supplemental employee, spouse, and child life insurance
- Employee Life Assistance Program
- Hybrid working environment in a new office space downtown near the Metra Train stations and catered lunches on Tuesdays.
Expected Pay Range : $130,000 USD - $170,000 USD
About The Company
Rewards Network
Rewards Network is a leading fintech company providing marketing, loyalty rewards programs, and capital for the restaurant industry. Founded in 1984, Rewards Network enhances the restaurant experience for diners by offering unique card-linked offers that leverage advanced technology and powerful data analytics, while simultaneously providing value to our strategic partners’ overall loyalty programs. Some of our success stories include: • More than 97,000 restaurants increased their revenue, traffic, and customer engagement thanks to our innovative financial and marketing services, which include: access to capital, promotional emails, marketing applications, social media, dining websites, reviews by verified restaurant guests, and business intelligence • Our network restaurants outperform others in the industry by 3-4% in same store sales • We have financed more than $2.5 billion in total cash to restaurants, bars, and clubs in our network • More than 18 of the top loyalty brands in the U.S. partner with us -- including American Airlines AAdvantage, United Airlines MileagePlus, Hilton Honors, Uber, and Visa • We boast more than 19 million reward-seeking members -- including frequent flyers, corporate cardholders, and highly-motivated diners who spend more than $500 million annually and earn more than $1B in rewards each year
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