Senior Software Engineer, Orders Core Services - Remote

Overview

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.

In Short

• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.