Software Engineer, Finance Technology

ezCater

Software Engineer transforming finance technology platform at ezCater through new technical features. Focusing on building a scalable solutions with AI-enabled tooling for financial transactions.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeRemote • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $125,000 - $148,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoGraphQLJavaPostgresRubyRuby on RailsSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Take a lead role in designing and building services and features that will drive the transformation of our finance tech stack, in collaboration with Staff Engineers and Product.
Act like an ezCater owner and a software craftsperson, striking a balance of quality and speed while delivering customer impacting features.
Mentor developing engineers and contribute to engineering excellence across the organization.
Be part of an on-call rotation that we work to make as uneventful as possible
Have fun building meaningful software with awesome people.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ 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 designing and consuming APIs (REST or GraphQL), plus working knowledge of relational SQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL).
Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) and a demonstrated ability to integrate them into daily engineering workflows to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and automate routine development tasks. Eagerness to share AI best practices with peers is also a plus!
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).
A quality mindset: security best practices, automated testing clean code, code reviews, and CI/CD basics.
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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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
Employee meal program (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office

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Hard Skills & Tools

GoRuby on RailsJavaAPIsRESTGraphQLSQLPostgreSQLpayment-processing systemsautomated testing

Soft Skills

mentoringcollaborationfeedbackquality mindsetflexibilitypragmatismproblem-solvingcommunicationleadershipcustomer focus