Senior Software Engineer, Orders Core Services (Remote)

ezCater is the #1 food tech platform for workplaces in the US. The company makes it easy for any organization to manage its food needs and order from over 125,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from employee meal programs to one-off meetings, all backed by beyond helpful 24/7 service and business-grade reliability. For restaurant partners, ezCater helps grow their business by bringing them new high-value customers and large orders.

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.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

What You Have

• 5+ years of platform experience on a product engineering team.
• Strong backend development skills, with hands-on proficiency in Ruby on Rails or Go.
• 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. Eagerness to share AI best practices with peers is also a plus!
• 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.
• Ability to travel up to 5 days per quarter for Together Weeks, team gatherings and other events, when applicable.

The national total target _cash compensation range for this position, including base salary and bonus target, is $158,000–$190,000 annually.*

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• 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 experience in an innovative, high performing environment. You’ll get to work with engaged and passionate colleagues on challenging and impactful projects. You will have opportunities to grow in your career, and work in a place that values work/life harmony.

Oh, and you’ll get all this: 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, and knowing that you helped transform the food for work space.

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. Following a conditional offer of employment, ezCater may require a background check.

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