Senior Backend Platform Engineer - Events API (Remote)

ezCater, Inc; United States; Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

12 paid holidays

401K with ezCater match

Health/dental/FSA

Job summary

ezCater is hiring a backend-focused engineer to build scalable services and APIs, primarily using Go. You will partner with product and security teams to translate ambiguous problems into well-scoped deliverables, ensuring quality through testing and observability.

You will design reliable backend systems, own production issues, and drive developer velocity with self-service tooling. This role emphasizes cross-team collaboration and building shared platform capabilities across the org.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of strong software engineering experience building backend systems and APIs in production.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Have a self-service mindset to improve developer velocity and reduce toil.

Skills

Go

Backend systems experience

Production-grade software engineering

Observability mindset

Event-driven architectures

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Terraform

CI/CD tools

Datadog

Prometheus

Grafana

Kafka

Flink

Kinesis

Job description

ezCater is hiring a backend-focused engineer to build scalable services and APIs, primarily using Go. You will partner with product and security teams to translate ambiguous problems into well-scoped deliverables, ensuring quality through testing and observability.

You will design reliable backend systems, own production issues, and drive developer velocity with self-service tooling. This role emphasizes cross-team collaboration and building shared platform capabilities across the org.