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Senior Software Engineer, Menus Core Services (Remote)

158k – 190kBoston, MARemote5+ YOE
Summary

Build scalable, fault-tolerant core menu services in a hybrid monolithic/microservices architecture using Go or Ruby on Rails. Requires 5+ years experience, deep SQL/Postgres knowledge, API design, and cross-functional collaboration to drive growth and performance.

About the role

What You'll Do

  • Bring your knowledge of distributed systems to build highly-scalable, fault-tolerant systems in a hybrid monolithic/microservices architecture.
  • Partner with our data technology organization to enable detailed insight into our menus, unlocking future roadmap opportunities across the org.
  • Work cross-functionally with product managers and business stakeholders to understand the complex processes that drive order fulfillment.
  • Make an impact working on projects that will drive growth, profitability, and customer satisfaction across ezCater.
  • Improve performance at every chance you get (we believe speed itself is a feature).
  • Partner with fulfillment and customer care teams to improve the experience for customers, catering partners, delivery drivers, and customer support agents.
  • Have fun building meaningful software with awesome people.

What You Have

  • Fullstack experience on a product engineering team, ideally in Go or Ruby on Rails.
  • 5+ years of professional software development experience.
  • Deep knowledge of SQL / relational databases. Postgres? Even better.
  • Exposure to GraphQL and Kafka is an asset, but not a requirement.
  • Experience designing and building large-scale systems.
  • Extensive experience designing APIs and an understanding of API-first development.
  • Desire to work on a backend-heavy platform team.
  • An appetite for learning, experimentation, relentless curiosity and an ability to leverage what you learn to make our products better.
  • A friendly, flexible, and pragmatic disposition.

The national total target cash compensation range for this position, including base salary and bonus target, is $158,000–$190,000 annually.

Skills
GoRuby on RailsSQLPostgreSQLGraphQLKafkaAPIsdistributed systemsmicroservicesPostgres
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