Senior Software Engineer, Menus Core Services; Remote

Senior Software Engineer, Menus Core Services (Remote)

ez Cater is the leading food‑for‑work technology company in the U.S., connecting anyone who needs food for their workplace to over 100,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ez Cater offers flexible and scalable solutions for everything from recurring employee meals to one‑off meetings, backed by 24/7 customer service with real humans. ez Cater also helps companies manage their food spend in a single, customizable platform.

For restaurant partners, ez Cater 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, Soft Bank, and Quadrille.

ez Cater values technology as a differentiator and a key component of our success. We push ourselves every day to improve the codebase, improve performance, and deliver an amazing customer experience. Our culture values innovation, pragmatism, and transparency.

As we expand our team we’re seeking engineers that thrive in a forward‑thinking organization and are passionate about building products that drive measurable impact, while committing to quality code and deconstructing complexities. We are looking for smart, thoughtful, collaborative technologists to help us reach our goals while delivering value and impact across our business.

A critical area for ez Cater’s growth over the coming years will be solidifying the current menu capabilities and building the next features that will serve the full spectrum of our customer’s food needs. As a member of our Menus Core Services (MCS) team, you will play a pivotal role designing and building the foundation for these menu systems. This is a high‑visibility team at the center of ez Cater’s core services initiatives.

Additionally, you will partner with teams across the organization to fuel new functionality, improved customer experiences and partner integrations.

• Bring your knowledge of distributed systems to build highly‑scalable, fault‑tolerant systems in a hybrid monolithic/microservices architecture.
• Partner with our data technology organization to enable detailed insight into our menus, unlocking future roadmap opportunities across the org.
• Work cross‑functionally with product managers and business stakeholders to understand the complex processes that drive order fulfillment.
• Make an impact working on projects that will drive growth, profitability, and customer satisfaction across ez Cater.
• Improve performance at every chance you get (we believe speed itself is a feature).
• Partner with fulfillment and customer care teams to improve the experience for customers, catering partners, delivery drivers, and customer support agents.
• Have fun building meaningful software with awesome people.

• Fullstack experience on a product engineering team, ideally in Go or Ruby on Rails.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Deep knowledge of SQL / relational databases. Postgres? Even better.
• Exposure to Graph
  
  QL and Kafka is an asset, but not a requirement.
• Experience designing and building large‑scale systems.
• Extensive experience designing APIs and an understanding of API‑first development.
• Desire to work on a backend‑heavy platform team.
• An appetite for learning, experimentation, relentless curiosity and an ability to leverage what you learn to make our products better.
• A friendly, flexible, and pragmatic disposition.

The national cash compensation range for this role is $141,000 - $174,000 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 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 ez Cater and the role, and highlighting anything else you think we should know.

ez Cater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent…