Backend Engineer

ezCater is the #1 food tech platform for workplaces in the US, making it easy for organizations to manage food needs and order from over 125,000 restaurants nationwide. Their solutions range from employee meal programs to one-off meetings, backed by 24/7 service and business-grade reliability.

At ezCater, technology is a key differentiator and a core component of their success. They focus on improving the codebase, performance, and delivering an amazing customer experience. Their team values innovation, pragmatism, and transparency.

The ezCater platform team builds shared platform capabilities for infrastructure, enabling engineers to ship quality software reliably, safely, and quickly. This role involves building backend services, APIs, infrastructure components, and reliable distributed systems. You’ll partner cross-functionally with product engineering teams to ensure the right experiences are built, driving 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.
• Adopt 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 building shared platform capabilities used by multiple teams or products.
• A strong quality mindset across CI/CD, telemetry, and production ownership.