Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ezCater is the #1 food tech platform for workplaces in the US, providing scalable solutions for managing food needs. As a Staff Engineer on the Finance Technology team, you will focus on building a modern tech stack that enables safe and compliant financial transactions, including credit card processing and invoicing.
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture for the Finance Technology platform, which includes pay-ins, payouts, invoicing, and tax calculation. You’ll make the architectural calls to unlock the next several years of scale
- Define clear, well-versioned APIs and contracts for how Finance Technology services are consumed across all channels
- Lead multi-quarter initiatives end-to-end: shape the problem with Product, design the system, break the work down, and deliver alongside the team while staying hands-on in the code
- Maintain a perspective on the evolving financial technology landscape and lead the technical evaluation of finance technology providers, e.g. payment service providers
- Be a leader in Finance Technology’s continued innovation and experimentation on our AI-native SDLC
- Partner with senior technical leaders across ezCater to align on shared pattern and standards
- Lead through collaborative design: whiteboarding, technical discussions, and aligning teams around clear architectural decisions
- Partner with Platform Engineering on shared service patterns, Temporal, observability, secrets, and CI/CD
- Act as a technical multiplier through design reviews, code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship
- Be part of an on-call rotation that we work to make as uneventful as possible, and lead the team in triaging and investigating customer-impacting production issues
Skills
- 8+ 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 as the technical lead on multi-quarter, multi-team initiatives — owning the architecture, sequencing the work, and shipping the outcome
- Deep 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)
- Experience with workflow orchestration technologies such as Temporal
- A quality mindset: security best practices, automated testing clean code, code reviews, and CI/CD principles
- Excellent written and verbal communication around collaborative system design and technical decision-making
- 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
- Ability to travel up to 5 days per quarter for Together Weeks, team gatherings and other events, when applicable
Benefits
- 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
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