Senior AI-Native Platform Engineer (Remote)

ezCater, Inc; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 158,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

12 paid holidays

Flexible PTO

401K with ezCater match

Health/dental/vision insurance

Remote/hybrid work

Job summary

ezCater, Inc is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build AI-native platform capabilities, focusing on backend services, APIs, and distributed workflows. You will apply AI across planning, implementation, review, testing, and release, contributing reusable engineering patterns and improving team workflows.

You’ll collaborate with product, design, and engineering peers to deliver well-scoped, high-quality solutions while owning testing and production readiness.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of strong software engineering experience building backend systems and APIs in production.
• Fluency with AI-assisted software delivery and clear judgment about where AI helps and where rigor matters most.
• Understanding of AI-native workflows, including structured context and iterative loops.
• Experience in Go, or deep proficiency in Java.
• Experience with transactional databases such as Postgres, RDS, or Aurora, including schema design, migrations, query performance, and reliability.
• Experience designing APIs, service boundaries, data models, and integration patterns in distributed systems.
• Comfort with workflow orchestration, event-driven architectures, and operational complexity.
• A strong quality mindset across testing, CI/CD, telemetry, and production ownership.
• Strong communication and a high-ownership approach to technical execution.

Responsibilities

• Build shared services, APIs, and workflows that support administrative experiences, integrations, and core platform capabilities
• Design reliable backend systems for cross-domain business flows and operationally critical use cases
• Apply AI effectively throughout the software lifecycle, including implementation planning, coding, review, testing, and quality improvement
• Contribute reusable engineering skills, patterns, and guidance that improve how teams work with AI
• Partner with product, design, and engineering peers to turn ambiguous problems into well-scoped, high-quality deliveries
• Own quality through testing, observability, safe rollout practices, and production issue investigation

Skills

Go language

Java

Backend API design

Distributed systems

AI-assisted software delivery

Testing & CI/CD

Communication

Go tooling

Tools

PostgreSQL

RDS

Aurora

Job description

ezCater, Inc is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build AI-native platform capabilities, focusing on backend services, APIs, and distributed workflows. You will apply AI across planning, implementation, review, testing, and release, contributing reusable engineering patterns and improving team workflows.

You’ll collaborate with product, design, and engineering peers to deliver well-scoped, high-quality solutions while owning testing and production readiness.