Director of Engineering, Front-end and Ordering Platform

ezCater

Director of Engineering leading front-end platform and ordering experience for ezCater's food tech solutions. Owning customer journey from discovery to checkout with AI integration and multi-team leadership.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeRemote • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $250,000 - $334,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaScriptNext.jsReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own front-end platform and architecture across Next.js (App Router), React, TypeScript, and Astro, including micro-frontend composition strategies, monorepo, shared design system, cross-MFE state management, and MFE shell orchestrator.
Define the opinionated path for building and deploying front-end applications — CI/CD, observability, accessibility, performance budgets, and contract testing — across both the marketplace and internal tools channels.
Own the full ordering experience from discovery, personalization, and menu browsing through cart, checkout, and payment, consuming headless backend APIs through BFF layers.
Drive AI-native front-end development, including design-to-code pipelines (Figma, Claude Design, v0), AI-assisted development against organizational context, and AI-powered product experiences such as personalized recommendations, intelligent search, and conversational ordering.
Ensure front ends are machine-readable and API-first to serve AI agents alongside human users, with awareness of emerging commerce protocols (MCP, Universal Commerce Protocol).
Own the design system as infrastructure — design tokens, theming, cross-platform consistency — packaged and documented for both human engineers and AI code generation workflows.
Lead and develop three engineering teams, scaling the organization as it grows; recruit and develop engineers and managers, including from minimal staffing.
Hold a high technical bar: review front-end system designs, challenge architectural decisions, and identify performance issues from technical signals.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Demonstrated experience standing up front-end engineering organizations, not just inheriting them
Deep fluency in Next.js (App Router), React, TypeScript, and modern build tooling (e.g., Turborepo, Rspack), with hands-on architectural credibility
Experience leading multi-team web applications with micro-frontend architectures; strong opinions on composition strategies per journey stage and cross-MFE concerns (CSS isolation, state sharing, auth propagation, SSR vs. CSR, contract testing)
Ownership of a transactional customer journey — discovery, cart, checkout, payment — including BFF architectures and multiple customer types or ordering modes on a single platform
Practical AI fluency across front-end work: design-to-code workflows, AI-assisted testing, AI-powered product features, and the infrastructure that makes AI effective (component library docs, API contracts, repository context)
Design system experience — tokens, theming, cross-platform consistency, documentation for human and AI consumers
Expertise in performance and observability: Core Web Vitals, real user monitoring, and performance budgets enforced in CI
Experience leading engineering managers, developing teams, and making hard performance calls
Ability to travel up to 5 days per quarter for Together Weeks, team gatherings and other events, when applicable.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Market competitive salary
Stock options
12 paid holidays
Flexible PTO
401K with ezCater match
Health/dental/FSA
Long-term disability insurance
Mental health resources
Family planning resources
Employee meal program

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Hard Skills & Tools

Next.jsReactTypeScriptmicro-frontend architectureCI/CDobservabilityperformance budgetsdesign-to-code workflowsAI-assisted developmentcontract testing

Soft Skills

leadershipteam developmentrecruitmentarchitectural decision-makingperformance evaluation