Staff Software Engineer, Marketplace Experience (Remote)

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.

The critical growth driver for ezCater is our marketplace—a best-in-class catering ordering experience from discovery to checkout. As the Staff Engineer of the marketplace frontend experience, you'll establish architectural and coding standards for ezCater's customer-facing touchpoints and frontend platforms to enable teams to build innovative customer solutions. As a technical leader, you'll leverage deep experience building scalable software solutions to meet ezCater's technology and business goals.

Beyond technical leadership, you'll help to grow our engineering organization through mentorship and coaching, establishing and implementing technical standards, and contributing to an inclusive, transparent culture.

 

What You'll Do: 

• Define and evangelize architectural standards and best practices for ezCater’s marketplace frontend experience to enable velocity, scalability, and consistency. 
• Work with internal stakeholders, including Principal Engineers, other Staff Engineers, Product Managers, Product Analysts and Design, to evolve ezCater’s frontend systems to meet business needs and handle increasing scale.
• Decompose complex problems, design technical solutions, and navigate critical decisions by balancing software best practices, system realities, and stakeholder concerns.
• Elevate software quality, frontend architecture, and expectations of what's achievable within the engineering organization.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to teammates across the organization while fostering a culture of learning and collaboration.

What You Have: 

• 7+ years of professional development experience, with strong expertise in React.
• 4+ years of professional React experience.
• Proven track record of evangelizing, standardizing, and building frontend design patterns and addressing systemic technical impediments.
• Passion for developing exceptional user experience and expertise collaborating with cross-functional partners to drive product direction.
• High standards for software quality and a framework for improving quality within teams and codebases.
• Experience mentoring engineers and working with business stakeholders to define technology roadmaps.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with a commitment to quality documentation.
• Eagerness to give and receive feedback in a collaborative learning environment.
• Friendly, flexible and pragmatic approach to work.

Preferred: 

• Experience working on digital storefronts.
• Experience with TypeScript, GraphQL, and Next.js.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or equivalent.
• Experience with Native technologies.

 

The national cash compensation range for this role is $176,000 - $225,000*

*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 opportunity, in an environment of radical transparency, 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