Staff Software Engineer, Finance Technology (Remote)

<div class="content-intro"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">ezCater is the #1 food tech platform for workplaces in the US. The company makes it easy for any organization to manage its food needs and order from over 125,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from employee meal programs to one-off meetings, all backed by 24/7 service and business-grade reliability. For restaurant partners, ezCater helps grow their business by bringing them new high-value customers and large orders.</span></p></div><p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Creating a delightful customer experience from order creation to delivery is a key part of ezCater’s mission. As a Staff Engineer on our Finance Technology team, you will focus on building solutions that will transform ezCater’s finance technology platform as ezCater scales and builds new features that enables an agentic commerce future. This will include building a first-class, modern tech stack that pairs ezCater’s existing software solutions with AI-enabled tooling. You will focus on designing and implementing features for this new tech stack that will enable performant, safe, and compliant financial transactions for our customers and restaurant partners (RP). This includes credit card processing, invoicing, payouts to Restaurant Partners, and calculating taxes.&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">In addition to this, you’ll be a key driving force behind growing our engineering organization through mentorship and coaching of other technical leaders, establishing and rolling out technical and architectural standards, and contributing to an inclusive and transparent culture.</span></p> <h4 style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">What You’ll Do:</span></h4> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Own the architecture for the Finance Technology platform, which includes pay-ins, payouts, invoicing, and tax calculation. You’ll make the architectural calls to unlock the next several years of scale.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Define clear, well-versioned APIs and contracts for how Finance Technology services are consumed across all channels.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lead multi-quarter initiatives end-to-end: shape the problem with Product, design the system, break the work down, and deliver alongside the team while staying hands-on in the code.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Own technical health for the domain by defining engineering quality and tracking the operational metrics to show that the quality bar has been met.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Maintain a perspective on the evolving financial technology landscape and lead the technical evaluation of finance technology providers, e.g. payment service providers. This will include prototyping, technical spikes, and keeping abreast of “what’s next”.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Be a leader in Finance Technology’s continued innovation and experimentation on our AI-native SDLC .</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partner with senior leaders across ezCater to align on shared patterns and standards. This includes leaders in engineering and product as well as other senior leaders in other organizations at ezCater.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lead through collaborative design: whiteboarding, technical discussions, and aligning teams around clear architectural decisions.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Partner with Platform Engineering on shared service patterns, Temporal, observability, secrets, and CI/CD.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Act as a technical multiplier through design reviews, code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Be part of an on-call rotation that we work to make as uneventful as possible, and lead the team in triaging and investigating customer-impacting production issues.</span></li> </ul> <h4 style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;">What you have:</span></h4> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">8+ years building backend services.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">4+ years with Go.</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Led multi-quarter, multi-team initiatives as tech lead - owning architecture, sequencing work, and shipping - with proven influence without authority.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Deep experience with payment-processing and payout systems (card processing, invoicing, refunds, disbursements, tax) in high-volume products.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hands-on integration with modern PSPs/gateways (Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, card networks) and a grasp of settlement, chargebacks, PCI, and SCA.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Built and scaled high-integrity systems where correctness, security, and reliability are non-negotiable (payments, ledgers, billing, or similar critical distributed systems).&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Strong instincts for API/contract design and service boundaries.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A quality mindset: security, automated testing, clean code, CI/CD, and safe incremental rollouts (feature flags, telemetry).&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Clear written and verbal communication on system design and technical tradeoffs.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Demonstrated use of AI tools to improve the SDLC without sacrificing rigor.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal); card issuance or ledgering.</span></li> </ul> <p style="line-height: 1.5;">&nbsp;</p> <p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"><em data-stringify-type="italic">The national total target</em><strong data-stringify-type="bold"><em data-stringify-type="italic">&nbsp;</em></strong><em data-stringify-type="italic">cash compensation range for this position, including base salary and bonus target, is $184,000–$232,000 annually.*</em></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.5;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;"><em>*Please note: Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise and region &amp; may vary from the amount above. This range does not represent additional compensation benefits (such as equity, 401K or medical, dental or vision insurance).&nbsp;</em></span></p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">ezCater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What You’ll Get from Us:</strong></p> <p>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.&nbsp;</p> <p>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, <a href="https://www.ezcater.com/company/corporate-solutions/recurring-employee-meals/">employee meal program</a> (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office, and knowing that you helped transform the food for work space.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">For information on how ezCater collects and uses job applicants' personal information, please visit our&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ezcater.com/company/apply/job-applicant-privacy-policy/" target="_blank">Job Applicant Privacy Policy.</a></span></p> <div><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">#BI-Remote&nbsp;</span></div></div>