ezCater is the most trusted provider of corporate food solutions and is purpose-built for business. ezCater's corporate food platform and flexible, scalable food solutions allow organizations to centralize and track their food spend, and fulfill everything from daily employee meals to client meetings and company all-hands. ezCater backs this up with business-grade, best-in-class, customer service and an unmatched nationwide footprint. We're backed by top investors including Insight, Iconiq, Lightspeed, GIC, SoftBank, and Quadrille.

Core Services teams at ezCater manage services that represent durable business concepts, especially those used on both sides of our ecommerce platform. A Core Service team might be focused on Orders, Menus, Users, Financial Services, or another critical system underpinning ezCater’s buying experiences and catering management systems.

A critical area for ezCater’s growth over the coming years will be growing the suite of capabilities in our Core Services domain, establishing a stable foundation for growth and enabling a whole suite of Food for Work solutions. As the technical leader in this domain, you’ll be helping to set our direction for years to come on these topics and a number of other fundamental tech capabilities, focusing your attention both on the capabilities of our core services and on the leverage those systems can provide to our products and our business.

In addition to this, you’ll be a key driving force behind growing our engineering organization through mentorship and coaching of other technical leaders, establishing and rolling out technical and architectural standards, and contributing to an inclusive and transparent culture.

What You'll Do:

• Build architectural standards for Rails applications, communicating via GraphQL to our various frontends in iOS, Android, and React.
• Design and build the capabilities powering the products across our catering platform.
• Define the strategy for managing our core services technology platform, inclusive of architecture, API design, technical quality, and more.
• Put engineering design principles into practice as we modularize our backend platform, and help to apply them in data engineering and machine learning use cases
• Be a visionary leader providing guidance and mentorship to your teammates across the organization.
• Raise the bar for software quality, backend architecture, and expectations of what is achievable within the engineering organization.

What You Have:

• 10 years of professional development experience, ideally using Ruby on Rails.
• A distributed systems mindset, and experience working both with service oriented architectures and monolithic applications.
• A strong appetite for learning, and an ability to leverage what you learn to make our products better.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and facilitation skills, and a drive to produce quality documentation.
• An eagerness and willingness to give and receive feedback, because we all love learning from each other.
• A friendly, flexible and pragmatic disposition.

Preferred:

• Experience with e-commerce marketplaces, particularly two-sided marketplaces.
• Experience with telemetry systems (e.g. Datadog, Sentry).
• Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming data platforms (e.g Kafka).
• Experience with orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience integrating with various third party APIs.

The national cash compensation range for this role is $202,000 - $255,000 per year*

*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 section of our 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 opportunity, in an environment of radical transparency, open access to all the data, and collaborative colleagues at every level of our organization. You’ll also get sane working hours and great flexibility around work/life balance. 

Have people in your life – of any age – who always, often, or sometimes need your help? We make room for that. Have a bad thing or a good thing happen to you? We make room for that, too.

Oh, and you’ll get all this: Market salary, stock options that you’ll help make worth a lot, the usual holidays, all-you-can-eat vacation, 401K with ezCater match, health/dental/FSA, long-term disability insurance, remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston or Denver offices OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office (you choose!), a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy, wicked awesome co-workers, cupcakes (and many more goodies) when you’re in one of our offices, and knowing that you helped get this rocket ship to the moon.

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.

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