Software Engineer, Meal Program (Remote) at Ezcaterinc

ezCater is the leading food for work technology company in the US, connecting anyone who needs food for their workplace to over 100,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from recurring employee meals to one-off meetings, all backed by 24/7 customer service with real humans. ezCater also enables companies to manage their food spend in a single, customizable platform. For restaurant partners, ezCater 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, SoftBank, and Quadrille. At ezCater, we value technology as a differentiator and a key component of our success. It powers everything we do. We push ourselves every day to better the codebase, improve performance, and deliver above and beyond customer experience. As we expand our Engineering team, we are looking for smart, friendly, and collaborative technologists to help us reach our goals while delivering real impact to the business. Do you enjoy working on systems that are directly used by customers? Join us in building the technology that helps companies feed their teams. As a Software Engineer on the Meal Program team, you’ll take ownership of our web application, managing the entire end-to-end experience for our corporate clients and their employees. This includes everything from launching innovative new features that solve real user needs to performing the platform upgrades and routine maintenance that keep our systems scalable and secure. By ensuring the ordering, catering, and billing processes are seamless and efficient, you’ll help our customers provide high-quality food options while supporting local businesses and reducing food waste. What You'll Do: • Own the Core Platform: Take full ownership of the Meal Program web application lifecycle, including admin tooling, menu recommendations, order management, and billing systems. • Modernize and Maintain: Proactively manage the infrastructure and platform dependencies to ensure the existing application remains robust, secure, and scalable. • Build for Customers: Respond to corporate client and business needs by evolving existing products and identifying high-impact areas for new initiatives. • Bridge Data and UX: Partner with our data technology team to transform complex data models into intuitive, user-facing features that simplify the ordering experience. • Architect Solutions: Decompose complex problems into elegant technical designs and collaborate with fellow engineers to implement, test, and validate your team’s output. • Drive Technical Direction: Communicate clearly with your team to maintain mission alignment and provide technical guidance on complex projects. • Optimize via Insights: Continually improve the user experience by increasing system efficiency based on research, user data, and performance metrics. • Innovate Processes: Actively contribute ideas to improve our product, tech stack, and internal development workflows. • Scale with Speed: Embrace new challenges in a fast-paced environment and contribute to every stage of the development lifecycle as we scale our services. • Build with Purpose: Have fun creating meaningful, sustainable software alongside a talented and supportive team! What You Have: • Fullstack Expertise: You have experience working on a product engineering team and feel comfortable navigating both the frontend and backend. • Technical Proficiency: You are skilled in fullstack technologies including Ruby on Rails, React, GraphQL, REST APIs, and TypeScript. • Proven Experience: You have 3 or more years of development experience working within a production codebase. • Adaptability: You are eager to learn new languages and stacks such as Go. Existing experience with Go is a significant plus. • Data Fluency: You possess strong skills with SQL and have a deep understanding of relational databases. • A Product Mindset: You enjoy building systems for real people and bring an attention to detail and genuine empathy for the end user. • Strong Communication: You have excellent written and verbal communication skills along with a commitment to producing high-quality documentation. • A Growth Mindset: You have a strong appetite for learning and the ability to apply new knowledge to improve our codebase and platforms. • Respect for the Craft: You appreciate the art of coding and hold informed opinions on best practices and system design. • A Collaborative Spirit: You bring a friendly, flexible, and pragmatic disposition to the team. A good sense of humor, especially a love for puns, is highly encouraged. The national total target cash compensation range for this position, including base salary and bonus target, is $125,200 - $148,000 annually.* *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 ezCater and the role, and highlighting anything else you think we should know! ezCater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence. What You’ll Get from Us: You’ll get a terrifically compelling experience in an innovative, high performing environment. You’ll get to work with engaged and passionate colleagues on challenging and impactful projects. You will have opportunities to grow in your career, and work in a place that values work/life harmony. Oh, and you’ll get all this: 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, and knowing that you helped transform the food for work space. ezCater is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. At the same time, we do not employ jerks, even brilliant ones. Following a conditional offer of employment, ezCater may require a background check. For information on how ezCater collects and uses job applicants' personal information, please visit our Job Applicant Privacy Policy. #BI-Remote