ezCater

Software Engineer, Finance Technology (Remote)

ezCater$125K — $148K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of professional development experience focused on backend technologies (Go, Ruby on Rails, Java, etc.)
  • Proven expertise in designing and consuming APIs (REST/GraphQL) and working with relational SQL databases like PostgreSQL
  • Experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) and integrating them into workflows
  • Background in building and scaling payment processing systems (credit card processing, invoicing, refunds) for customer-facing products
  • Hands-on experience with payment service providers (e.g., Stripe, Adyen) and understanding of payment lifecycles and compliance considerations
  • Strong focus on quality, including security best practices, automated testing, and CI/CD process familiarity
  • Effective collaborator with a history of turning ambiguous problems into iterative, measurable deliveries.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and development of services to transform ezCater's finance tech stack in collaboration with engineers and product teams
  • Balance quality and speed to deliver impactful customer features effectively
  • Mentor junior engineers and champion engineering excellence within the team
  • Participate in an on-call rotation, contributing to a well-maintained support environment
  • Collaborate with peers to create meaningful software solutions.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for career growth in an innovative, high-performing environment
  • Flexible PTO and 12 paid holidays for work/life balance
  • 401K plan with company match
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance options
  • Employee meal program and various office perks for in-office staff
  • Remote-hybrid work options to suit personal preferences
  • Autonomy and significant responsibility within a passionate team.
Full Job Description
Creating a delightful customer experience from order creation to delivery is a key part of ezCater's mission. As a Software Engineer on our Finance Technology team, you will focus on building solutions that will transform ezCater's finance technology platform as ezCater scales and builds new features that enables an agentic commerce future. This will include building a first-class, modern tech stack that pairs ezCater's existing software solutions with AI-enabled tooling. You will focus on designing and implementing features for this new tech stack that will enable performant, safe, and compliant financial transactions for our customers and restaurant partners (RP). This includes credit card processing, invoicing, payouts to RPs, and calculating taxes.

We are just starting on our journey of building ezCater's payments platform of the future so this is an excellent role for an engineer who enjoys owning meaningful systems end-to-end, values collaborative design, and wants to help shape how a modern platform is built and evolved.
What You'll Do:
  • Take a lead role in designing and building services and features that will drive the transformation of our finance tech stack, in collaboration with Staff Engineers and Product.
  • Act like an ezCater owner and a software craftsperson, striking a balance of quality and speed while delivering customer impacting features.
  • Mentor developing engineers and contribute to engineering excellence across the organization.
  • Be part of an on-call rotation that we work to make as uneventful as possible
  • Have fun building meaningful software with awesome people.
What you have:
  • 3+ years of professional development experience, with a focus on backend technologies and building services using Go, Ruby on Rails, Java or similar languages.
  • Demonstrated success designing and consuming APIs (REST or GraphQL), plus working knowledge of relational SQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL).
  • 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!
  • Experience designing, building, and scaling payment-processing and payout systems (e.g., credit card processing, invoicing, refunds, restaurant partner disbursements, tax calculation/reconciliation) in high-volume, customer-facing products.
  • Hands-on experience integrating with modern payment service providers and gateways (e.g., Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, card networks), with a strong understanding of payment lifecycles, settlement, chargebacks, and regulatory/compliance considerations (such as PCI and SCA).
  • A quality mindset: security best practices, automated testing clean code, code reviews, and CI/CD basics.
  • Practical experience using feature flags, telemetry, and safe rollout techniques to ship incrementally and de-risk changes.
  • Experience triaging and investigating custom-impacting, production issues.
  • Track record collaborating with Product and Design to turn ambiguous problems into iterative deliveries and measurable outcomes.
  • Eagerness to give and receive feedback in a collaborative learning environment.
  • Friendly, flexible and pragmatic approach to work.

The national total targetcash compensation range for this position, including base salary and bonus target, is $125,000 - $148,000 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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