Senior Software Engineer

Who you are

• 5+ years of strong software engineering experience building backend systems and APIs in production
• Experience in Go
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Service mesh (Istio), Terraform (or similar IaC tools) and CI/CD systems
• Comfort with workflow orchestration, event-driven architectures and operational complexity
• Experience with observability tooling (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana or similar)
• Experience building shared platform capabilities used by multiple teams or products
• A strong quality mindset across CI/CD, telemetry and production ownership

What the job involves

• The ezCater platform team focuses on building shared platform capabilities for our infrastructure so that our engineers can ship quality software reliably, safely and quickly. This role is centered on building backend services, APIs, infrastructure components and reliable distributed systems
• You’ll actively partner cross-functionally with product engineering teams to ensure that we are building the right experiences that will in turn drive customer growth and adoption
• Build internal developer platforms, shared services, APIs and libraries that support integrations and core platform capabilities
• Design reliable backend systems for cross-domain business flows and operationally critical use cases
• Partner with product, security and engineering peers to turn ambiguous problems into well-scoped, high quality deliverables
• Own quality through testing, observability, safe rollout practices and production issue investigation
• Have a self-service mindset to improve developer velocity and reduce toil

Benefits

• Health and wellness: Taking care of yourself and your loved ones comes first. Our competitive benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision; extensive voluntary options; and mental health resources.
• Compensation: We pride ourselves on our competitive offer packages, and take our commitment to pay transparency seriously. All full-time employees receive equity, a 401(k) match, and a monthly stipend to use towards commuting and remote work expenses.
• Parental support: We offer 12 weeks fully paid parental leave with additional paid time for delivery recovery. We also offer a family planning benefit that provides financial assistance for qualified family forming services.
• Full bellies: For employees working from our Boston office, we offer a lunch stipend via Meal Program. And fully stocked fridges all day, everyday.
• Time off: We offer flexible vacation plus 14 paid holidays. Every 5 years our people are eligible for an ezBreak, a fully-paid 4 week sabbatical and $5,000 bonus.
• Growth and development: We offer professional development opportunities through Skills Accelerator, our internal upskilling program, along with company-wide, department specific leadership trainings. We take internal mobility seriously – you can move sideways, you can move up, and there are always new opportunities to learn.