Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ezCater is the #1 food tech platform for workplaces in the US, providing scalable solutions for managing food needs. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build menu systems that enhance customer experiences and drive business growth.
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 menus, 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
- Improve performance at every chance you get (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
Skills
- Fullstack experience on a product engineering team, ideally in Go or Ruby on Rails
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) and a demonstrated ability to integrate them into daily engineering workflows to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and automate routine development tasks
- 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
- Ability to travel up to 5 days per quarter for Together Weeks, team gatherings and other events, when applicable
- Exposure to GraphQL and Kafka is an asset, but not a requirement
- Eagerness to share AI best practices with peers is also a plus!
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
- Employee meal program (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office
Company Overview
EzCater is an online catering marketplace that allows individuals to order food from local caterers. It was founded in 2007, and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://www.ezcater.com.