Senior Data Engineer, Business Enablement (Remote)

ezCater; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 141,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

ezCater, the leading food for work technology company, seeks a Senior Data Engineer to drive innovation and impactful data solutions. In this role, you will engage directly with stakeholders, shape architectural decisions, and optimize data pipelines in a fast-paced environment, contributing to the transformation of the catering industry with your expertise.

Benefits

Flexible PTO

401K with company match

Health and dental insurance

Stock options

Collaborative work environment

Qualifications

• Strong experience with data warehousing and pipelines.
• Mastery in SQL and experience with Python.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Write and ship code to refine requirements.
• Design and develop high-performance data pipelines.
• Mentor other Data Engineers and lead cross-functional data initiatives.

Skills

Data warehousing

Data lakes

ELT process

SQL

Python

Data quality

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

dbt

Airflow

Job description

Senior Data Engineer, Business Enablement (Remote)

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.

Are you passionate about data? How about leveraging data to drive meaningful impact across a fast growing two-sided marketplace? Have opinions on how to best enable data scientists across a billion-dollar company to do elastic workforce planning or real-time customer lifetime value prediction? Then we should definitely talk!

The Data Technology team at ezCater is growing! As we look towards the second half of 2025 and beyond, data is a key strategic component across the company - from advanced, real-time machine learning to business intelligence and data governance. Data is our differentiator and how we will drive real, meaningful impact to the $60+billion Catering industry.

We are hiring a Senior Data Engineer to join our expanding team in solving complex data and platform challenges to accelerate our growing business. The ideal candidate lives and breathes data while driving systems and architecture best practices. They care about driving business impact through producing solid and efficient infrastructure alongside accurate and performant data. You will have the opportunity to work directly with executive stakeholders as we embark on a massive-scale data modeling effort across the organization, so flexibility and the ability to translate business requests to implementation are key.

What you’ll do:

• Write and ship a lot of code.
• Work directly with analysts and stakeholders to refine requirements, nail down logic, and debug and qualify produced data sets to ensure they meet the underlying business needs.
• Drive architectural decisions and thoughtfully balance trade-offs in system design.
• Lead cross-functional data initiatives.
• Champion high standards in data quality, security, and discoverability.
• Translate complex technical challenges into clear solutions.
• Design and develop high-performance data pipelines. Adhering to SDLC, including CI/CD and best practices.
• Identify and drive opportunities to optimize and/or scale existing parts of our stack.
• Utilize tooling and automation to improve developer efficiency.
• Monitor data systems to ensure quality and availability while seeking to drive down costs.
• Contribute to the team processes and community.
• Mentor other Data Engineers.
• Be part of our innovation and transformation story.
  
  
  

What you have:

• Strong experience with data warehousing, data lakes, ELT process, and enterprise data platforms such as Snowflake (preferred), Redshift & BigQuery.
• Experience with building performant data pipelines across disparate systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS (preferred), GCP & Azure.
• Mastery in SQL and experience in Python.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• An open mind and willingness to be flexible. We have a large and complex business, and believe in driving real value out of every project we do.
• Our stack is Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, Airflow, AWS, Sagemaker, MLFlow, Kubernetes + Docker, Monte Carlo, Hightouch and Python for custom ETL and data science integrations. Experience with the above is a nice-to-have, and a desire to learn is a must.
• A sharp mind, a soft heart and a large funny bone.

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).

ezCater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence.

What you’ll get from us:

You’ll get a terrifically compelling opportunity, in an environment of radical transparency, open access to all the data, and collaborative colleagues at every level of our organization. You’ll 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 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.

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. Following a conditional offer of employment, ezCater may require a background check.

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