Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ezCater is the #1 food tech platform for workplaces in the US, providing scalable solutions for managing food needs. The Director of Engineering will lead Experience Engineering, owning the front-end platform and customer journey, while managing multiple teams and driving AI-native development.
Responsibilities
- Own front-end platform and architecture across Next.js (App Router), React, TypeScript, and Astro, including micro-frontend composition strategies, monorepo, shared design system, cross-MFE state management, and MFE shell orchestrator
- Define the opinionated path for building and deploying front-end applications — CI/CD, observability, accessibility, performance budgets, and contract testing — across both the marketplace and internal tools channels
- Own the full ordering experience from discovery, personalization, and menu browsing through cart, checkout, and payment, consuming headless backend APIs through BFF layers
- Drive AI-native front-end development, including design-to-code pipelines (Figma, Claude Design, v0), AI-assisted development against organizational context, and AI-powered product experiences such as personalized recommendations, intelligent search, and conversational ordering
- Ensure front ends are machine-readable and API-first to serve AI agents alongside human users, with awareness of emerging commerce protocols (MCP, Universal Commerce Protocol)
- Own the design system as infrastructure — design tokens, theming, cross-platform consistency — packaged and documented for both human engineers and AI code generation workflows
- Lead and develop three engineering teams, scaling the organization as it grows; recruit and develop engineers and managers, including from minimal staffing
- Hold a high technical bar: review front-end system designs, challenge architectural decisions, and identify performance issues from technical signals
Skills
- Demonstrated experience standing up front-end engineering organizations, not just inheriting them
- Deep fluency in Next.js (App Router), React, TypeScript, and modern build tooling (e.g., Turborepo, Rspack), with hands-on architectural credibility
- Experience leading multi-team web applications with micro-frontend architectures; strong opinions on composition strategies per journey stage and cross-MFE concerns (CSS isolation, state sharing, auth propagation, SSR vs. CSR, contract testing)
- Ownership of a transactional customer journey — discovery, cart, checkout, payment — including BFF architectures and multiple customer types or ordering modes on a single platform
- Practical AI fluency across front-end work: design-to-code workflows, AI-assisted testing, AI-powered product features, and the infrastructure that makes AI effective (component library docs, API contracts, repository context)
- Design system experience — tokens, theming, cross-platform consistency, documentation for human and AI consumers
- Expertise in performance and observability: Core Web Vitals, real user monitoring, and performance budgets enforced in CI
- Experience leading engineering managers, developing teams, and making hard performance calls
- Ability to travel up to 5 days per quarter for Together Weeks, team gatherings and other events, when applicable
- Micro-frontend architectures in production (Multi-Zones, Module Federation, edge composition, Islands architecture)
- Design-to-code pipelines integrating Figma, Claude Design, v0, or similar tools
- Agentic or AI-powered commerce experiences
- Internal tools unification under a shared MFE shell
- Headless commerce architectures consuming OpenAPI contracts with event-driven updates
- Cloudflare (Workers, reverse proxy, CDN optimization) for edge-based front-end routing
- Familiarity with Go, Kafka/MSK, Temporal, or PostgreSQL — the backend your front end consumes
Benefits
- 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
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