Engineering Manager, Search Platform

🕒 July 6

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $195k - $255k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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ezCater

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2007

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

💰 $100M Series D on 2021-12

Food & Beverage • Logistics • Consulting

ezCater is a platform that provides businesses with catering solutions, allowing companies to order food for meetings and events from a diverse range of restaurants and caterers. The platform enables users to easily manage orders, ensuring that all dietary preferences and business needs are met seamlessly. With a focus on corporate clients, ezCater streamlines the catering process, making it more efficient for organizations to feed their teams and guests.

📋 Description

• Lead delivery and technical quality across query serving, indexing, availability, and APIs • Set technical direction for the search stack, including architecture and ranking strategy • Own the freshness and correctness of the index and availability domain • Review designs, challenge assumptions, and help de-risk architecture • Build a culture of measurement, experimentation, and continuous improvement • Coach, develop, and grow engineers through direct feedback • Prioritize ruthlessly and sequence work to improve execution • Partner closely with product, data, AI/ML, and platform engineering

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience • Experience leading teams or serving as a technical lead • Engineering management experience, with a track record of hiring and developing engineers • Deep technical credibility in search or retrieval systems like Vespa, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or Solr • Strong backend depth in distributed, event-driven systems; Go experience is preferred • Experience with indexing pipelines, document models, and event-streaming patterns • Strong instincts for relevance and ranking, translating product goals into technical decisions • Experience with observability, production operations, and safe rollouts

🏖️ Benefits

• Health/dental/FSA • 401K with ezCater match • Flexible PTO • 12 paid holidays • Stock options • Long-term disability insurance • Mental health and family planning resources • Employee meal program