Ezcaterinc

Ezcaterinc

Engineering Manager, Search Platform (Remote)

Boston, MA

No sponsorship$195k-$255kDetected 8 days ago
ElasticsearchPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningA/B TestingLeadership

About the role

  • For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from employee meal programs to one-off meetings, all backed by 24/7 service and business-grade reliability.
  • Search is the front door of the ezCater marketplace.
  • We're actively replatforming search, and this role will help strengthen the team while guiding the architecture, delivery, and operational maturity of that new foundation.

Responsibilities

  • Lead delivery and technical quality across query serving, indexing, availability, and the APIs and contracts other teams depend on.
  • Set technical direction for the search stack, including engine architecture, document schema, indexing and query patterns, ranking strategy, and migration sequencing.
  • Stay close to the technical work by reviewing designs, challenging assumptions, and helping the team de-risk architecture and delivery decisions.
  • Build a culture of measurement, experimentation, and continuous improvement in search quality, platform reliability, and operational performance.
  • Coach, develop, and grow engineers through direct feedback, clear expectations, and a high technical bar for search engineering.
  • Partner closely with product, data, AI/ML, and platform engineering on relevance signals, experimentation, personalization, and shared infrastructure.
  • Help the team build a strong foundation for the future, with clear ownership boundaries, strong engineering habits, and a platform others can confidently build on.
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience, including experience leading teams or serving as a technical lead in complex backend or platform environments.
  • Engineering management experience, with a track record of hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineers.
  • Deep technical credibility in search or retrieval systems such as Vespa, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or Solr, ideally through a major re-architecture or build-from-scratch effort.

Requirements

  • Experience with indexing pipelines, document models, and event-streaming patterns that keep results fresh and correct.
  • Experience with observability, production operations, and safe rollouts for correctness-critical systems.

Nice to have

  • Strong backend depth in distributed, event-driven systems
  • Go experience is preferred.

Compensation

  • The national total target cash compensation range for this position, including base salary and bonus target, is $195,000-$255,000 annually.*

Benefits

  • 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.
  • This range does not represent additional compensation benefits (such as equity, 401K or medical, dental or vision insurance).

Company info

  • Own the freshness and correctness of the index and the availability domain so customers see restaurants that can actually fulfill an order.
  • At the same time, we do not employ jerks, even brilliant ones.

Equal opportunity

  • ezCater is an equal opportunity employer.
  • equal opportunity employer.

Visa & Work Authorization

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