ezCater

Senior Software Engineer, Events Platform (Remote)

ezCater$158K — $190K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience in backend systems and APIs
  • Proficient in Go programming language
  • Strong experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Service mesh (Istio), and Terraform
  • Familiarity with workflow orchestration and event-driven architectures
  • Experience with observability tools such as Datadog or Prometheus
  • Background in building shared platform capabilities across teams

Responsibilities

  • Build internal developer platforms and core services to enhance integration capabilities
  • Design reliable backend systems for critical business operations
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams to convert ambiguous problems into precise deliverables
  • Ensure quality through thorough testing, observability, and safe production practices
  • Promote a self-service mindset to streamline developer operations

Benefits

  • Market competitive salary
  • Stock options with future potential
  • 12 paid holidays and flexible PTO
  • 401K with company matching
  • Health, dental, and FSA offerings
  • Long-term disability insurance
  • Mental health support and family planning resources
  • Hybrid work options with flexibility between home and office
Full Job Description
The ezCater platform team focuses on building shared platform capabilities for our infrastructure so that our engineers can ship quality software reliably, safely and quickly. This role is centered on building backend services, APIs, infrastructure components and reliable distributed systems. You'll actively partner cross-functionally with product engineering teams to ensure that we are building the right experiences that will in turn drive customer growth and adoption.

What You'll do:
  • Build internal developer platforms, shared services, APIs and libraries that support integrations and core platform capabilities.
  • Design reliable backend systems for cross-domain business flows and operationally critical use cases.
  • Partner with product, security and engineering peers to turn ambiguous problems into well-scoped, high quality deliverables.
  • Own quality through testing, observability, safe rollout practices and production issue investigation.
  • Have a self-service mindset to improve developer velocity and reduce toil.

What You Have:
  • 5+ years of strong software engineering experience building backend systems and APIs in production.
  • Experience in Go
  • Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Service mesh (Istio), Terraform (or similar IaC tools) and CI/CD systems.
  • Comfort with workflow orchestration, event-driven architectures and operational complexity.
  • Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana or similar).
  • Experience with streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink, Kinesis).
  • Experience building shared platform capabilities used by multiple teams or products.
  • A strong quality mindset across CI/CD, telemetry and production ownership.

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

*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).

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.

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About ezCater

ezCater is an online marketplace for business catering. The company was founded in 2007 by Stefania Mallett and Briscoe Rodgers and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. ezCater connects businesses with local caterers and restaurants, providing a streamlined ordering and delivery process. The company has partnerships with over 60,000 restaurants and caterers across the United States and has served over 2.5 million business customers. ezCater has raised over $300 million in funding and was valued at $1.25 billion in 2019.
Learn more about ezCater
Size
1,000 employees
Industry
Founded
2007

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