Take a lead role in designing, building, and evolving backend services and workflows that power ezCater’s fulfillment and post‑order experiences.
Collaborate with Product and Operations partners to translate complex, real‑world fulfillment problems into pragmatic, scalable technical solutions.
Improve system reliability, performance, and observability across critical fulfillment paths, with a strong focus on customer and operational impact.
Strike a thoughtful balance between quality, speed, and iteration while delivering on company‑level priorities.
Mentor developing engineers and contribute to engineering excellence through design reviews, code reviews, and technical leadership.
Work effectively across team boundaries to influence shared systems, APIs, and architectural direction.
Have fun building meaningful software with awesome people.

Requirements

5+ years of professional software development experience, with a strong emphasis on backend systems and service‑oriented architectures.
Experience building and maintaining services using languages such as Go, Ruby on Rails, Java, or similar.
Demonstrated success designing, consuming, and evolving APIs (REST and/or GraphQL), with working knowledge of relational SQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL).
A quality mindset: automated testing, clean and maintainable code, code reviews, and CI/CD fundamentals.
Practical experience using feature flags, telemetry, and safe rollout techniques to ship incrementally and de‑risk changes.
Experience working in complex, operationally‑heavy domains (e.g., fulfillment, logistics, customer support, marketplaces, or SaaS platforms) is a strong plus.
Track record of collaborating with Product and Design to turn ambiguous problems into iterative deliveries with measurable outcomes.
Eagerness to give and receive feedback in a collaborative, learning‑oriented environment.
Friendly, flexible, and pragmatic approach to work.

Benefits

Market competitive salary
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
Relish (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office
Knowing that you helped transform the food for work space.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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