Principal Software Engineer, Core Services (Remote)

Key Skills

Android, Apache Kafka, DataDog, Docker, Ecommerce, Effective communication skills, GraphQL, iOS platform, Kubernetes-K8s, Machine learning techniques, React.js, Ruby on Rails, Streaming APIs

Job Description

Core Services teams at ezCater manage services that represent durable business concepts, especially those used on both sides of our ecommerce platform. A Core Service team might be focused on Orders, Menus, Users, Financial Services, or another critical system underpinning ezCater’s buying experiences and catering management systems.

A critical area for ezCater’s growth over the coming years will be growing the suite of capabilities in our Core Services domain, establishing a stable foundation for growth and enabling a whole suite of Food for Work solutions. As the technical leader in this domain, you’ll be helping to set our direction for years to come on these topics and a number of other fundamental tech capabilities, focusing your attention both on the capabilities of our core services and on the leverage those systems can provide to our products and our business.

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:

• Build architectural standards for Rails applications, communicating via GraphQL to our various frontends in iOS, Android, and React.
• Design and build the capabilities powering the products across our catering platform.
• Define the strategy for managing our core services technology platform, inclusive of architecture, API design, technical quality, and more.
• Put engineering design principles into practice as we modularize our backend platform, and help to apply them in data engineering and machine learning use cases
• Be a visionary leader providing guidance and mentorship to your teammates across the organization.
• Raise the bar for software quality, backend architecture, and expectations of what is achievable within the engineering organization.

What You Have:

• 10+ years of professional development experience, ideally using Ruby on Rails.
• A distributed systems mindset, and experience working both with service oriented architectures and monolithic applications.
• A strong appetite for learning, and an ability to leverage what you learn to make our products better.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and facilitation skills, and a drive to produce quality documentation.
• An eagerness and willingness to give and receive feedback, because we all love learning from each other.
• A friendly, flexible and pragmatic disposition.

Preferred:

• Experience with e-commerce marketplaces, particularly two-sided marketplaces.
• Experience with telemetry systems (e.g. Datadog, Sentry).
• Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming data platforms (e.g Kafka).
• Experience with orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience integrating with various third party APIs.

The national cash compensation range for this role is $202,000 - $255,000 per year