Senior Software Engineer, Orders Core Services (Remote)

ezCater, Inc•Boston, MA

4h•$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 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 culture values innovation, pragmatism, and transparency. A critical area for ezCater’s growth over the coming years will be solidifying the current order capabilities and building the next features which will service the full spectrum of corporate Food for Work needs. As a member of our Orders Core Services team, you’ll be close to the systems that every ezCater order runs through. By strengthening our core data models and APIs and improving performance at scale, your work will help other teams ship faster, reduce operational friction, and make the ordering experience more reliable.

Requirements

5+ years of platform experience on a product engineering team.
Strong backend development skills, with hands-on proficiency in Ruby on Rails or Go.
Deep knowledge of SQL / relational databases. Postgres? Even better.
Experience designing and building large-scale systems.
Extensive experience designing APIs and an understanding of API-first development.
Desire to work on a backend-heavy platform team.
An appetite for learning, experimentation, relentless curiosity and an ability to leverage what you learn to make our products better.
A friendly, flexible, and pragmatic disposition.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS/GCP), containers, container orchestration(e.g., Kubernetes) and infrastructure‑as‑code is a plus.
Exposure to event-driven or streaming systems (e.g., Kafka) is a plus.
Interest in AI-assisted tools and workflows to accelerate development and improve product quality.

Responsibilities

Bring your knowledge of distributed systems to build highly-scalable, fault-tolerant systems in a hybrid monolithic/microservices architecture.
Partner with our data technology organization to enable detailed insight into our orders, unlocking future roadmap opportunities across the org.
Work cross-functionally with product managers and business stakeholders to understand the complex processes that drive order fulfillment.
Make an impact working on projects that will drive growth, profitability, and customer satisfaction across ezCater.
Continuously look for opportunities to improve system performance and reliability (we believe speed itself is a feature).
Partner with fulfillment and customer care teams to improve the experience for customers, catering partners, delivery drivers, and customer support agents.
Have fun building meaningful software with awesome people.

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