Engineering Manager, Native Apps

Job Application for Engineering Manager, Native Apps (Remote) at ezCater, Inc

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.

If you are passionate about building and growing high-performing teams, while remaining committed to your technical craft, this may be the position for you. With prior management experience, you thrive on inspiring and leading others. You gauge your own success on the success (or failure) of your team, not your own accomplishments. As a manager, you operate with scale and speed, guiding the way for your team.

What You'll Do:

• Build, lead, and mentor exceptional teams of software engineers, leading conversations, and cultivating execution and decision-making; all while delighting our customers and propelling our team of engineers to execute on projects.
• Drive the execution of our vision by translating business requirements into technical solutions. Ensuring our products are robust and adhere to the engineering standards while meeting our goals.
• Leverage your technical expertise and communication skills to collaborate with product managers and other engineering teams in the organization to influence our systems and roadmaps.
• Operate with scale and speed determining the ideal development lifecycle and approach for new and existing solutions.
• Build a healthy, supportive and inclusive work environment across the entire team, while having an unrelenting focus on maturing the practice of giving and receiving feedback.
• Educate the team on the meaning of each goal and objective, and ensure each can be measured. When appropriate, re-negotiate success metrics with stakeholders as information emerges to ensure teams are set up for success.
• Have fun building meaningful software with awesome people.

What You Have:

• A passion for building and growing high-performing teams, prior management experience, and a desire to be an impactful leader.
• Proficiency in documenting processes and monitoring the performance metrics for our applications and systems.
• Extensive experience building and launching native mobile applications for both Android and iOS. Working knowledge of the mobile development ecosystem and proficiency in languages like Kotlin/Java (Android) and Swift/Objective-C (iOS). Experience with cross-platform frameworks (e.g., React Native, Flutter) is a plus. Deep understanding of mobile architecture, performance optimization, and best practices.
• Knowledge of the AI ecosystem and experience introducing AI tools into enterprise-facing products in a thoughtful way is a huge plus.
• Flexible growth mindset, you’re willing to do what it takes to adapt your team and power them for success.
• Goal orientation and a record of success leading leaders and engineers.
• A desire to collaborate with strong engineers and engineering leaders to continually improve a mature engineering team. A sharp mind, a soft heart, and a large funny bone.

The national total target cash compensation range for this position, including base salary and bonus target, is $195,000–$255,000 annually.

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!

What You’ll Get from Us:

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.

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, Relish (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office, and knowing that you helped transform the food for work space.