Senior Software Engineer, Growth Platform (Remote)

ezCater is the most trusted provider of corporate food solutions – a $300+ billion market in the US alone. ezCater is purpose-built for business. ezCater's corporate food platform and flexible, scalable food solutions allow organizations to centralize and track their food spend, and fulfill everything from daily employee meals to client meetings and company all-hands. ezCater backs this up with business-grade, best-in-class, customer service and an unmatched nationwide footprint. We're backed by top investors including Insight, Iconiq, Lightspeed, GIC, SoftBank, and Quadrille, and had an up-round in December of 2021 when we were valued at $1.6 billion.

ezCater values technology as a differentiator and a key component of our success. It powers everything we do. We push ourselves every day to improve the codebase, improve performance, and deliver an amazing customer experience. Our culture values innovation, pragmatism, and transparency. Check out the ezCater Engineering Blog for a glimpse into our culture and team.

As we expand our team we’re seeking engineers that thrive in a forward-thinking organization and are passionate about building products that drive measurable impact, while committing quality code and deconstructing complexities. We are looking for smart, thoughtful, collaborative technologists to help us reach our goals while delivering value and impact across our business.

The Growth Platform team concentrates on developing the infrastructure and systems essential for assembling the most accurate customer dataset possible, aiming to boost revenue by delivering personalized customer experiences.  You will be joining a team that partners closely with product analysts, marketers, operators, data researchers, and business partners to identify opportunities to enhance our product offerings, streamline operations, and drive strategic growth. Together, we leverage data insights and innovative technologies to develop targeted solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers, improve user engagement, and maximize the impact of our marketing efforts. This collaborative approach ensures we are not only meeting but exceeding our business objectives, setting new benchmarks for excellence and innovation within the industry.

 

What You'll Do:

• Be a team player and operate within an agile framework, employing SCRUM and Sprints to enhance project management and accelerate product development.
• Build back-end products utilizing Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Sidekiq, and various platform integrations.
• Build, buy, and operate the architecture needed to enable rapid product and marketing insights (e.g. event streaming, sessionization, identity resolution, etc).
• Collaboratively define problems, set strategies, and drive innovation.
• Plan and organize projects and work with your team to deliver results; individually and collaboratively.
• Partner with stakeholders, researchers, engineers, data scientists, designers, and other peers to ideate, coordinate, and deliver cross-functional value.

What You Have:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Fullstack experience using Ruby on Rails.
• Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases. Postgres? Even better.
• An appetite for learning, experimentation, relentless curiosity and an ability to leverage what you learn to make our products better.
• Highly collaborative with the ability to work both autonomously and in team environments.
• Strong communication skills 
• A growth mindset with a desire for continuous improvement and personal and professional growth. 
• A friendly, flexible, and pragmatic disposition.

 

The national cash compensation range for this role is $141,000 - $174,000 per year*

 

*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 section of our 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 opportunity, in an environment of radical transparency, open access to all the data, and collaborative colleagues at every level of our organization. You’ll also get sane working hours and great flexibility around work/life balance. 

Have people in your life – of any age – who always, often, or sometimes need your help? We make room for that. Have a bad thing or a good thing happen to you? We make room for that, too.

Oh, and you’ll get all this: Market salary, stock options that you’ll help make worth a lot, the usual holidays, all-you-can-eat vacation, 401K with ezCater match, health/dental/FSA, long-term disability insurance, remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston or Denver offices OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office (you choose!), a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy, wicked awesome co-workers, cupcakes (and many more goodies) when you’re in one of our offices, and knowing that you helped get this rocket ship to the moon.

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.

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