Senior Software Engineer, Incentive Offers

About the role

The real world is the next frontier, and at Metropolis, we are creating the artificial intelligence to make it responsive. We are pioneering the Recognition Economy - a future where mundane repetition disappears and being known unlocks access, comfort, and belonging everywhere you go. From transforming parking into a seamless drive-in, drive-out experience for millions of Members to expanding our intelligence layer across retail and hospitality, we are building a world that feels instinctive and magical. The future isn't coming; it's here, and we need builders, innovators, and problem solvers to help us create it.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the backend services that power the Metropolis incentive and rewards infrastructure
• Build real-time event streaming architectures to process and react to high-frequency signals from the physical world
• Develop scalable compliance and preference management services to ensure cross-vertical message delivery integrity
• Architect intelligent decisioning frameworks that evaluate user context and profiles to deliver personalized experiences
• Create robust service architectures to manage product eligibility, partner configurations, and budget constraints
• Implement comprehensive attribution and measurement systems to quantify user engagement and campaign efficacy
• Scale and maintain multi-modal identity systems that bridge digital tokens with real-world identifiers
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in Product, Marketing, and Data to define the long-term technical roadmap
• Mentor team members and lead technical discussions to drive continuous improvement of the engineering platform
• Drive the full software development lifecycle from initial conceptualization through to production deployment

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• Working knowledge of Scala, Java, or other JVM languages supporting functional programming
• Experience building distributed systems using microservices, SOA, and event-driven architectures
• Deep understanding of agile processes and the software development life cycle, including TDD/BDD and CI/CD
• Experience with database technologies such as MySQL and RDS
• Proven ability to design and build highly available and scalable systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for presenting complex technical information
• Professional exposure to developing large-scale, high-quality systems for consumer-facing applications
• While not required, these are a plus:
• Hands-on experience with container technologies and infrastructure as code
• Previous experience working in innovative, high-growth environments
• Our Stack
• Languages + Frameworks: TypeScript, React, Scala (principally), Java (limited)
• Datastores: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Snowflake
• Cloud: AWS
• Version control: Git & GitHub
• AI Tooling: Copilot on GitHub and Claude Code
• Observability: Datadog

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