ezCater

Senior Software Engineer, Events Platform (Remote)

ezCater$158K — $190K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Boston, MA
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, specifically with backend systems and APIs
  • Proficiency in Go programming language
  • Strong background in cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, service mesh tools (e.g., Istio), Terraform, and CI/CD systems
  • Comfort in handling workflow orchestration and operational complexity
  • Familiarity with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana
  • Experience with streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Flink, Kinesis)
  • Ability to build shared platform capabilities that serve multiple teams or products.

Responsibilities

  • Build internal developer platforms and shared services to enhance core capabilities
  • Design reliable backend systems for critical business operations
  • Collaborate with product, security, and engineering teams to define challenges and deliver high-quality solutions
  • Ensure product quality through robust testing and observability practices
  • Adopt a self-service mindset to enhance developer efficiency and minimize repetitive tasks.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements including remote and hybrid options
  • Market competitive salary with stock options
  • 12 paid holidays and flexible PTO
  • 401K plan with company match
  • Health, dental, and flexible spending accounts (FSA)
  • Long-term disability insurance and mental health support
  • Resources for family planning
  • Employee meal program and additional perks in the office
  • Opportunities for professional growth and a strong emphasis on work/life balance.
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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