Job Description
ezCater is the #1 food tech platform for workplaces in the US. The company makes it easy for any organization to manage its food needs and order from over 125,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from employee meal programs to one-off meetings, all backed by 24⁄7 service and business-grade reliability. For restaurant partners, ezCater helps grow their business by bringing them new high-value customers and large orders.
Are you excited about coding solutions, building features, and driving efficiency while working with an exceptional team? At ezCater we rely on our dynamic and skilled team of engineers to provide solutions that unlock potential and drive innovation in our rapidly evolving environment.
ezCater values technology as a differentiator and a key component of our success. It powers everything we do. We push ourselves every day to improve the codebase, improve performance, and deliver an amazing customer experience. Our team values innovation, pragmatism, and transparency. Technology is the fulcrum that allows ezCater to provide a compelling and engaging experience for our customers.
The ezCater platform team focuses on building shared platform capabilities for our infrastructure so that our engineers can ship quality software reliably, safely and quickly. This role is centered on building backend services, APIs, infrastructure components and reliable distributed systems. You’ll actively partner cross-functionally with product engineering teams to ensure that we are building the right experiences that will in turn drive customer growth and adoption.
What You’ll do:
- Build internal developer platforms, shared services, APIs and libraries that support integrations and core platform capabilities.
- Design reliable backend systems for cross-domain business flows and operationally critical use cases.
- Partner with product, security and engineering peers to turn ambiguous problems into well-scoped, high quality deliverables.
- Own quality through testing, observability, safe rollout practices and production issue investigation.
- Have a self-service mindset to improve developer velocity and reduce toil.
What You Have:
- 5+ years of strong software engineering experience building backend systems and APIs in production.
- Experience in Go
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Service mesh (Istio), Terraform (or similar IaC tools) and CI/CD systems.
- Comfort with workflow orchestration, event-driven architectures and operational complexity.
- Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana or similar).
- Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink, Kinesis).
- Experience building shared platform capabilities used by multiple teams or products.
- A strong quality mindset across CI/CD, telemetry and production ownership.
The national total target cash compensation range for this position, including base salary and bonus target, is $158,000 - $190,000 annually.*
*Please note: Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise and region & may vary from the amount above. This range does not represent additional compensation benefits (such as equity, 401K or medical, dental or vision insurance).
ezCater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence.
What You’ll Get from Us:
You’ll get a terrifically compelling experience in an innovative, high performing environment. You’ll get to work with engaged and passionate colleagues on challenging and impactful projects. You will have opportunities to grow in your career, and work in a place that values work/life harmony.
Oh, and you’ll get all this: Market competitive salary, stock options that you’ll help make worth a lot, 12 paid holidays, flexible PTO, 401K with ezCater match, health/dental/FSA, long-term disability insurance, mental health and family planning resources, remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston office OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office, a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy, wicked awesome co-workers, employee meal program (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office, and knowing that you helped transform the food for work space.
ezCater is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. At the same time, we do not employ jerks, even brilliant ones. Following a conditional offer of employment, ezCater may require a background check.
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