Senior Software Engineer, New Platform (Remote)

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.

ezCater is investing in a next-generation, composable platform that powers future product experiences across the organization. This platform is API-first, headless, and designed to enable teams to build and evolve product capabilities quickly, safely, and at scale. The New Platform is central to ezCater’s ability to evolve its product and business. 

As a Senior Software Engineer, New Platform, you will play a key role in designing, building, and operating core platform services and experiences. You’ll work across the stack — from backend services and APIs to experience-layer integrations — and collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other engineering teams to turn ambiguous problems into well-structured, scalable solutions.

This role is ideal for an experienced engineer who enjoys owning meaningful systems end-to-end, values collaborative design, and wants to help shape how a modern platform is built and used across an organization.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and implement platform services and APIs that support multiple product experiences
• Own end-to-end features and capabilities, from design through production and iteration
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers for technical design
• Make meaningful improvements to code quality, reliability, and developer experience within the New Platform
• Mentor and provide technical support for less experienced engineers on the team
• Build Go-based backend services and microservices that model platform capabilities
• Create well-designed APIs and contracts that are easy for other teams to consume and extend
• Build instrumentation, logging, and metrics to ensure systems are observable and operable in production
• Automate tests, safe rollout mechanisms, and incremental delivery pipelines that reduce risk
• Operate with a strong sense of ownership for systems in production

What you have:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong backend development experience, ideally with Go or similar modern languages
• Experience building and operating microservices and API-driven systems; experience with BFF (Backend-for-Frontend) or Experience APIs is a plus
• Working knowledge of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) and data modeling
• Practical experience with observability, performance tuning, and operating production systems
• Familiarity with modern frontend technologies such as React and TypeScript; experience with frameworks like Next.js or Astro is a plus
• A quality mindset: testing, code reviews, CI/CD, and safe rollout practices
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with Product and Design to deliver iterative, measurable outcomes
• A team-oriented approach with eagerness to learn and grow
• Friendly, flexible and pragmatic approach to work

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). 

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, Relish (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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