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. To learn more, visit www.ezcater.com.

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 culture values innovation, empathy, pragmatism, and transparency.

As we expand our team were seeking engineers that thrive in a forward-thinking organization and are passionate about building products that drive measurable impact, while committing quality code and deconstructing complexities. We are looking for smart, thoughtful, collaborative technologists to help us reach our goals while delivering value and impact across our business.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Monolith Experience team, you will empower enjoyable, sustainable and fast engineering in our monolith, which powers the core business functionality at ezCater. As a member of this team, you will drive the future of the monolith and therefore, engineering at ezCater. This will range from designing generic solutions to cross-domain problems, providing a guiding light for standards across the engineering organization, and identifying high value opportunities to delight our internal engineering customers.

What You'll Do:

• Join a platform team focused on delighting other engineers as they work in a Ruby on Rails monolith and related ecosystem.
• Build highly-scalable, fault-tolerant systems utilizing Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, and other technologies in a hybrid monolithic/microservices architecture.
• Improve the engineering experience by identifying, decomposing, designing and executing on high value solutions to problems impacting teams across the organization.
• Work with other talented engineers on your team to implement, test, and evaluate the things you build.
• Support generic internal tools used across domains within the monolith.
• Partner with engineering teams across the organization to develop and maintain engineering standards.
• Communicate with your team to ensure mission clarity and provide technical direction.
• Share ideas for improving the product, technology, and/or process.
• Operate with scale and speed in mind, embracing new challenges and contributing to the development lifecycle.
• Have fun building meaningful software with awesome people!

What You Have:

• 3+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails.
• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• An empathetic, friendly, flexible, and pragmatic disposition.
• Desire to work on a backend-heavy platform team.
• Deep knowledge of SQL / relational databases. Postgres? Even better.
• Experience designing and building large-scale systems for a nationwide marketplace.
• Extensive experience designing APIs and an understanding of API-first development.
• An appetite for learning, experimentation, relentless curiosity, and an ability to leverage what you learn to make our products better.

The national cash compensation range for this role is $141,000 - $174,000 per year*

*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 section of our 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 youll get from us:

Youll get a terrifically compelling opportunity, in an environment of radical transparency, and collaborative colleagues at every level of our organization. Youll 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 youll get all this: Market salary, stock options that youll help make worth a lot, the usual holidays, all-you-can-eat vacation, 401K with ezCater match, health/dental/FSA, long-term disability insurance, remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston or Denver offices OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office (you choose!), a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy, wicked awesome co-workers, cupcakes (and many more goodies) when youre in one of our offices, and knowing that you helped get this rocket ship to the moon.

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.

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