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 orders and restaurant partners grow their businesses. The Staff Software Engineer will own and transform the Finance Technology platform, building scalable, secure, compliant systems for payments, invoicing, payouts, and tax calculation while integrating AI-enabled tooling. The role also provides architectural leadership, mentorship, technical standards, and cross-functional collaboration.
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
- Own technical health for the domain by defining engineering quality and tracking the operational metrics to show that the quality bar has been met
- Maintain a perspective on the evolving financial technology landscape and lead the technical evaluation of finance technology providers, e.g. payment service providers. This will include prototyping, technical spikes, and keeping abreast of “what’s next”
- Be a leader in Finance Technology’s continued innovation and experimentation on our AI-native SDLC
- Partner with senior leaders across ezCater to align on shared patterns and standards. This includes leaders in engineering and product as well as other senior leaders in other organizations at ezCater
- 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 building backend services
- 4+ years with Go
- Led multi-quarter, multi-team initiatives as tech lead - owning architecture, sequencing work, and shipping - with proven influence without authority
- Deep experience with payment-processing and payout systems (card processing, invoicing, refunds, disbursements, tax) in high-volume products
- Hands-on integration with modern PSPs/gateways (Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, card networks) and a grasp of settlement, chargebacks, PCI, and SCA
- Built and scaled high-integrity systems where correctness, security, and reliability are non-negotiable (payments, ledgers, billing, or similar critical distributed systems)
- Strong instincts for API/contract design and service boundaries
- A quality mindset: security, automated testing, clean code, CI/CD, and safe incremental rollouts (feature flags, telemetry)
- Clear written and verbal communication on system design and technical tradeoffs
- Demonstrated use of AI tools to improve the SDLC without sacrificing rigor
- Workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal); card issuance or ledgering
- 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 benefits
- Long-term disability insurance
- Mental health and family planning resources
- Remote-hybrid work from the Boston office, from home, or a mixture of both
- A tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy
- Employee meal program when you’re in the office
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