Key skills
Distributed systemsBackend developmentRuby on RailsGoSQLRelational databasesPostgreSQLLarge-scale systems designAPI designAPI-first developmentCloud infrastructureAWSGCPContainersKubernetesInfrastructure as codeEvent-driven systemsStreaming systemsKafkaCuriosityPragmatismFriendly dispositionRubyAIRailsPostgres
About this role
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. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Orders Core Services team, you will build scalable and fault-tolerant systems, improve core data models and APIs, and enhance the overall ordering experience for customers and partners.
Responsibilities:
- 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 orders, 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 ezCater
- Continuously look for opportunities to improve system performance and reliability (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
Requirements:
- 5+ years of platform experience on a product engineering team
- Strong backend development skills, with hands-on proficiency in Ruby on Rails or Go
- Deep knowledge of SQL / relational databases. Postgres? Even better
- 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
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS/GCP), containers, container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) and infrastructure‑as‑code is a plus
- Exposure to event-driven or streaming systems (e.g., Kafka) is a plus
- Interest in AI-assisted tools and workflows to accelerate development and improve product quality
- 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