Job description
ezCater is the leading food for work technology company in the US, connecting anyone who needs food for their workplace to over 100,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from recurring employee meals to one-off meetings, all backed by 24⁄7 customer service with real humans. ezCater also enables companies to manage their food spend in a single, customizable platform. For restaurant partners, ezCater helps them grow their business by bringing them more orders and new high-value customers. We’re backed by top investors including Insight, Iconiq, Lightspeed, GIC, SoftBank, and Quadrille.
If you are passionate about building and growing high-performing teams, while remaining committed to your technical craft, this may be the position for you. With prior management experience, you thrive on inspiring and leading others. You gauge your own success on the success (or failure) of your team, not your own accomplishments. As a manager, you operate with scale and speed, guiding the way for your team.
ezCater values technology as a differentiator and a key component of our success. It powers everything we do. As a key technical leader on our team, you’ll have the opportunity and responsibility to set the direction of our ordering systems for years to come, focusing your attention both on the capabilities of our orders platform and on the leverage these systems can provide to our products and our business. You’ll play a critical role in helping us power the best catering experiences on earth, from the second a customer submits their order to the moment the food is delivered, and beyond.
What You’ll Do:
- Build, lead, and mentor exceptional teams of software engineers, leading conversations, and cultivating execution and decision-making; all while delighting our customers and propelling our team of engineers to execute on projects.
- Drive the execution of our vision by translating business requirements into technical solutions. Ensuring our products are robust and adhere to the engineering standards while meeting our goals.
- Leverage your technical expertise and communication skills to collaborate with product managers and other engineering teams in the organization to influence our systems and roadmaps.
- Operate with scale and speed determining the ideal development lifecycle, technical design, and approach for new and existing solutions.
- Instill best practices for software development while delivering high-quality work by fostering pragmatism and urgency.
- Contribute technically: Brainstorm with engineers, design solutions, and review PRs.
- Have fun building meaningful software with awesome people.
What You Have:
- Ability to grow highly specialized engineers and/or full stack and assess how that affects team dynamics.
- A passion for building and growing high-performing teams, prior management experience, and a desire to be an impactful leader.
- Prior experience with ordering systems would be a plus, ideally from an eCommerce and/or SAAS context.
- Proficiency in documenting processes and monitoring the performance metrics for our applications and systems.
- Extensive full-stack web development experience. Working knowledge of modern server-side and client-side frameworks. Ruby, Rails, and React would be a huge plus.
- Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases. Postgres? Even better.
- Flexible growth mindset, you’re willing to do what it takes to adapt your team and power them for success.
- Goal orientation and a record of success leading leaders and engineers.
- A desire to collaborate with strong engineers and engineering leaders to continually improve a mature engineering team. A sharp mind, a soft heart, and a large funny bone.
The national cash compensation range for this role is $190,000 - $230,000 per year.*
*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).
Please have fun with the Cover Letter portion of the application! It does not need to follow “traditional” cover letter guidelines - we would love for you to write 150-500 words explaining why you are interested in ezCater and the role, and highlighting anything else you think we should know!
ezCater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence.
What You’ll Get from Us:
You’ll get a terrifically compelling opportunity, in an environment of radical transparency, and collaborative colleagues at every level of our organization. You’ll also get sane working hours and great flexibility around work/life balance.
Have people in your life – of any age – who always, often, or sometimes need your help? We make room for that. Have a bad thing or a good thing happen to you? We make room for that, too.
Oh, and you’ll get all this: Market salary, stock options that you’ll help make worth a lot, the usual holidays, all-you-can-eat vacation, 401K with ezCater match, health/dental/FSA, long-term disability insurance, remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston or Denver offices OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office (you choose!), a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy, wicked awesome co-workers, cupcakes (and many more goodies) when you’re in one of our offices, and knowing that you helped get this rocket ship to the moon.
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.
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