Backend Engineer

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.

Are you excited about coding solutions, building features, and driving efficiency while working with an exceptional team? At ezCater, we rely on our dynamic and skilled team of engineers to provide solutions that unlock potential and drive innovation in our rapidly evolving environment.

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 team values innovation, pragmatism, and transparency. Technology is the fulcrum that allows ezCater to provide a compelling and engaging experience for our customers.

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 drive customer growth and adoption.

What You’ll Do:

• 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.

What You Have:

• 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 with streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink, Kinesis).
• Experience building shared platform capabilities used by multiple teams or products.
• A strong quality mindset across CI/CD, telemetry, and production ownership.