Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ezCater is a food technology platform that helps workplaces manage food needs and enables restaurant partners to reach business customers. The Senior Software Engineer will build backend services, APIs, infrastructure components, and distributed systems for the events platform while partnering with product, security, and engineering teams. The role also emphasizes system reliability, testing, observability, safe deployments, and improving developer velocity.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- EzCater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence
Benefits
- Stock options
- 12 paid holidays
- Flexible PTO
- 401K with ezCater match
- Health, dental, and FSA
- Long-term disability insurance
- Mental health and family planning resources
- Remote-hybrid work from the Boston office, home, or a mixture of both
- A tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy
- Employee meal program when in the office
- Opportunities to grow in your career
- A workplace that values work/life harmony
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