ezCater is the #1 food tech platform for workplaces in the US, providing scalable solutions for managing food needs. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Finance Technology team, you will lead the development of innovative solutions that enhance the finance technology platform, ensuring secure and compliant financial transactions for customers and restaurant partners.
Responsibilities:
- Take a lead role in designing and building services and features that will drive the transformation of our finance tech stack, in collaboration with Staff Engineers and Product
- Act like an ezCater owner and a software craftsperson, striking a balance of quality and speed while delivering customer impacting features
- Mentor developing engineers and contribute to engineering excellence across the organization
- Be part of an on-call rotation that we work to make as uneventful as possible
- Have fun building meaningful software with awesome people
Requirements:
- 5+ years of professional development experience, with a focus on backend technologies and building services using Go, Ruby on Rails, Java or similar languages
- Demonstrated success designing and consuming APIs (REST or GraphQL), plus working knowledge of relational SQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL)
- Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) and a demonstrated ability to integrate them into daily engineering workflows to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and automate routine development tasks
- Experience designing, building, and scaling payment-processing and payout systems (e.g., credit card processing, invoicing, refunds, restaurant partner disbursements, tax calculation/reconciliation) in high-volume, customer-facing products
- Hands-on experience integrating with modern payment service providers and gateways (e.g., Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, card networks), with a strong understanding of payment lifecycles, settlement, chargebacks, and regulatory/compliance considerations (such as PCI and SCA)
- A quality mindset: security best practices, automated testing clean code, code reviews, and CI/CD basics
- Practical experience using feature flags, telemetry, and safe rollout techniques to ship incrementally and de-risk changes
- Experience triaging and investigating custom-impacting, production issues
- Track record collaborating with Product and Design to turn ambiguous problems into iterative deliveries and measurable outcomes
- Eagerness to give and receive feedback in a collaborative learning environment
- Friendly, flexible and pragmatic approach to work