Staff Software Engineer, Finance Technology (Remote)

ezCater, Inc; United States; Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Paid holidays

401K match

Health/dental/vision

Remote-hybrid Boston office or home

Autonomy and responsibility

Meal program in office

Job summary

ezCater is the #1 food tech platform for workplaces in the US. As a Staff Engineer on our Finance Technology team, you will own the architecture for pay-ins, payouts, invoicing, and tax calculation, building a scalable, compliant financial stack.

You will mentor engineers, define APIs, drive end‑to‑end initiatives, and partner with Platform Engineering on CI/CD, observability, and an AI‑native SDLC. Bring 8+ years backend experience and Go expertise.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building backend services.
• 4+ years with Go.
• Led multi-quarter initiatives as tech lead with architecture ownership.
• Deep experience with payment-processing and payout systems in high-volume products.
• Hands-on integration with PSPs/gateways (Stripe, Adyen, Braintree) and PCI/SCA.
• Strong API/contract design and service boundaries.
• Security, automated testing, CI/CD, and safe incremental rollouts.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture for the Finance Technology platform including pay-ins, payouts, invoicing, and tax calculation.
• Define clear, well-versioned APIs and contracts for Finance Technology services.
• Lead multi-quarter initiatives end-to-end while remaining hands-on in code.
• Maintain engineering quality and operational metrics for the domain.
• Evaluate finance tech providers and prototype new approaches (AI-enabled tooling).
• Lead innovation on our AI-native SDLC and collaborate with cross-functional leaders.
• Mentor and partner with senior engineers and product teams to align patterns and standards.
• Participate in on-call rotations and triage production issues.

Skills

Backend architecture

Go

API design

Payments systems

Security & compliance

Mentorship

Leadership

Telemetry & observability

AI in SDLC

Tools

Stripe

Adyen

Braintree

PCI/SCA

Temporal

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

ezCater is the #1 food tech platform for workplaces in the US. The company makes it easy for any organization to manage its food needs and order from over 125,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from employee meal programs to one-off meetings, all backed by 24/7 service and business-grade reliability. For restaurant partners, ezCater helps grow their business by bringing them new high-value customers and large orders.

Creating a delightful customer experience from order creation to delivery is a key part of ezCater's mission. As a Staff Engineer on our Finance Technology team, you will focus on building solutions that will transform ezCater's finance technology platform as ezCater scales and builds new features that enables an agentic commerce future. This will include building a first-class, modern tech stack that pairs ezCater's existing software solutions with AI-enabled tooling. You will focus on designing and implementing features for this new tech stack that will enable performant, safe, and compliant financial transactions for our customers and restaurant partners (RP). This includes credit card processing, invoicing, payouts to Restaurant Partners, and calculating taxes.

In addition to this, you’ll be a key driving force behind growing our engineering organization through mentorship and coaching of other technical leaders, establishing and rolling out technical and architectural standards, and contributing to an inclusive and transparent culture.

What You’ll Do:

• Own the architecture for the Finance Technology platform, which includes pay-ins, payouts, invoicing, and tax calculation. You’ll make the architectural calls to unlock the next several years of scale.
• Define clear, well-versioned APIs and contracts for how Finance Technology services are consumed across all channels.
• Lead multi-quarter initiatives end-to-end: shape the problem with Product, design the system, break the work down, and deliver alongside the team while staying hands-on in the code.
• Own technical health for the domain by defining engineering quality and tracking the operational metrics to show that the quality bar has been met.
• Maintain a perspective on the evolving financial technology landscape and lead the technical evaluation of finance technology providers, e.g. payment service providers. This will include prototyping, technical spikes, and keeping abreast of “what’s next”.
• Be a leader in Finance Technology’s continued innovation and experimentation on our AI-native SDLC .
• Partner with senior leaders across ezCater to align on shared patterns and standards. This includes leaders in engineering and product as well as other senior leaders in other organizations at ezCater.
• Lead through collaborative design: whiteboarding, technical discussions, and aligning teams around clear architectural decisions.
• Partner with Platform Engineering on shared service patterns, Temporal, observability, secrets, and CI/CD.
• Act as a technical multiplier through design reviews, code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship.
• Be part of an on-call rotation that we work to make as uneventful as possible, and lead the team in triaging and investigating customer-impacting production issues.

What you have:

• 8+ years building backend services.
• 4+ years with Go.
• Led multi-quarter, multi-team initiatives as tech lead - owning architecture, sequencing work, and shipping - with proven influence without authority.
• Deep experience with payment-processing and payout systems (card processing, invoicing, refunds, disbursements, tax) in high-volume products.
• Hands-on integration with modern PSPs/gateways (Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, card networks) and a grasp of settlement, chargebacks, PCI, and SCA.
• Built and scaled high-integrity systems where correctness, security, and reliability are non-negotiable (payments, ledgers, billing, or similar critical distributed systems).
• Strong instincts for API/contract design and service boundaries.
• A quality mindset: security, automated testing, clean code, CI/CD, and safe incremental rollouts (feature flags, telemetry).
• Clear written and verbal communication on system design and technical tradeoffs.
• Demonstrated use of AI tools to improve the SDLC without sacrificing rigor.
• Workflow orchestration (e.g., Temporal); card issuance or ledgering.

The national total target cash compensation range for this position, including base salary and bonus target, is $184,000-$232,000 annually.*

*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 experience in an innovative, high performing environment. You’ll get to work with engaged and passionate colleagues on challenging and impactful projects. You will have opportunities to grow in your career, and work in a place that values work/life harmony.

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, employee meal program (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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