Senior Software Engineer, New Platform (Remote)

ezCater, Inc•Boston, MA

2h•$158,000 - $190,000•Remote

About The Position

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. ezCater is investing in a next-generation, composable platform that powers future product experiences across the organization. This platform is API-first, headless, and designed to enable teams to build and evolve product capabilities quickly, safely, and at scale. The New Platform is central to ezCater’s ability to evolve its product and business. As a Senior Software Engineer, New Platform, you will play a key role in designing, building, and operating core platform services and experiences. You’ll work across the stack — from backend services and APIs to experience-layer integrations — and collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to turn ambiguous problems into well-structured, scalable solutions. This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who enjoys owning meaningful systems end-to-end, values collaborative design, and wants to help shape how a modern platform is built and used across an organization.

Requirements

5+ years of professional software engineering experience
Strong backend development experience, ideally with Go or similar modern languages
Experience building and operating microservices and API-driven systems; experience with BFF (Backend-for-Frontend) or Experience APIs is a plus
Working knowledge of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and data modeling
Practical experience with observability, performance tuning, and operating production systems
Familiarity with modern frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript; experience with frameworks like Next.js or Astro is a plus
A quality mindset: testing, code reviews, CI/CD, and safe rollout practices
Demonstrated ability to collaborate with Product and Design to deliver iterative, measurable outcomes
A team-oriented approach with eagerness to learn and grow
Friendly, flexible and pragmatic approach to work

Responsibilities

Design and implement platform services and APIs that support multiple product experiences
Own end-to-end features and capabilities, from design through production and iteration
Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers for technical design
Make meaningful improvements to code quality, reliability, and developer experience within the New Platform
Mentor and provide technical support for less experienced engineers on the team
Build Go-based backend services and microservices that model platform capabilities
Create well-designed APIs and contracts that are easy for other teams to consume and extend
Build instrumentation, logging, and metrics to ensure systems are observable and operable in production
Automate tests, safe rollout mechanisms, and incremental delivery pipelines that reduce risk
Operate with a strong sense of ownership for systems in production

Benefits

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
Relish (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office
knowing that you helped transform the food for work space