VP, Engineering (Remote)

ezCater is the leading food for work technology company in the US, connecting anyone who needs food for their workplace to over 100,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from recurring employee meals to one-off meetings, all backed by 24/7 customer service with real humans. ezCater also enables companies to manage their food spend in a single, customizable platform. For restaurant partners, ezCater helps them grow their business by bringing them more orders and new high-value customers. To learn more, visit www.ezcater.com.

ezCater is rapidly expanding our product offering to power all food for work use cases. We have a team of experienced and driven directors who are empowered to develop and launch the needed technical strategies for this product expansion. We are seeking a seasoned VP that can lead this team to the next level of scale. You will report directly to the CTO and regularly engage with the executive leadership team as well as business partners throughout ezCater to 10X the impact of our engineering function. We’re looking for a leader that has a playbook for how to efficiently develop  platform investments while also rapidly bringing features to market and setting the strategy for optimal total cost of ownership. You will also be ready to unlearn prior company conventions and fully submerge in ezCater’s cultural recipe, continuing to strengthen ezCater’s commitment to collaboration, accountability and empowered teams. You’ll be eager to push out of your comfort zone and engage in experiments to develop more creative muscles throughout Technology. Most importantly, you’ll be committed to understanding the needs of the internal and external customers our product serves and be experienced at synthesizing the roadmap into a concise and engaging story to inspire our teams. 

What You'll Do:

• Leadership & Strategy
  • Identify the highest impacting system or process impediments across engineering. Act as the key leader to unblock. 
  • Initiate and support ezCater’s approach to offshoring/outsourcing to maximize capacity while preserving ezCater’s culture. 
  • Provide strategic guidance and technical direction on enterprise buy versus build decisions.
  • Partner with our People Team and FP&A to reinvent our approaches to portfolio and talent management. 
  • Lead the ongoing organizational design shift to keep pace with growth.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, including your peers across product and technology,  operations, and executive leadership, to define and execute against the cohesive engineering strategy.
• Team Management & Development
  • Build and lead a high-performing engineering organization, attracting top talent, fostering a culture of innovation, and promoting professional growth.
  • Set clear performance expectations, provide regular feedback, and mentor engineering managers and individual contributors.
  • Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment, promoting cross-team collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Technology Trends & Industry Knowledge
  • Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices in platform development, fulfillment systems, and front end development. 
  • Evaluate and recommend technology investments, tools, and partnerships to drive innovation and maintain a competitive edge.
  • Represent the company in relevant industry events, conferences, and forums, establishing the organization as a thought leader in the field.

What You Have:

• Proven experience (8+ years) leading large (100+) engineering functions in an organization that has matured their platform capabilities. 
• Demonstrated expertise in scalable architecture design, API integration, and cloud-based technologies.
• Experience managing and scaling engineering teams in fast-paced, agile environments.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively at all levels of the organization.
• Track record of successfully driving complex engineering initiatives, delivering high-quality results on time and within budget.
• Strategic thinker with a strong business acumen and the ability to align engineering initiatives with overall business objectives.
• Preferred: Strong understanding of e-commerce and fulfillment operations, including inventory management, order processing, and logistics.

ezCater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence.

What You’ll Get from Us:

You’ll get a terrifically compelling opportunity, in an environment of radical transparency, open access to all the data, and collaborative colleagues at every level of our organization. You’ll also get sane working hours and great flexibility around work/life balance. 

Have people in your life – of any age – who always, often, or sometimes need your help? We make room for that. Have a bad thing or a good thing happen to you? We make room for that, too.

Oh, and you’ll get all this: Market salary, stock options that you’ll help make worth a lot, the usual holidays, all-you-can-eat vacation, 401K with ezCater match, health/dental/FSA, long-term disability insurance, remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston or Denver offices OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office (you choose!), a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy, wicked awesome co-workers, cupcakes (and many more goodies) when you’re in one of our offices, and knowing that you helped get this rocket ship to the moon.

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.

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