Director of Engineering (Front-End and Ordering Platform)

Join ezCater as the Director of Engineering, where you will lead the Experience Engineering team and own the front-end platform, ordering experience, and the full customer journey. You will report to the VP of Engineering and oversee three teams: Discovery Experience, Ordering Experience, and Front-End Platform. This role requires a high technical bar, experience leading engineering managers, and a deep fluency in modern front-end technologies. Benefits include unlimited vacation, stock options, medical and dental insurance, and more.

• Lead the re-architecture of the front-end platform and ordering experience, ensuring a seamless customer journey from discovery through checkout.
• Own the front-end platform and architecture across modern technologies, including Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Astro, and define the path for building and deploying front-end applications.
• Drive AI-native front-end development, including design-to-code pipelines and AI-powered product experiences, while ensuring front ends are machine-readable and API-first.
• 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
• 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)
• Ability to travel up to 5 days per quarter for Together Weeks, team gatherings and other events, when applicable
• Design system experience — tokens, theming, cross-platform consistency, documentation for human and AI consumers
• Experience leading engineering managers, developing teams, and making hard performance calls
• 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)
• Deep fluency in Next.js (App Router), React, TypeScript, and modern build tooling (e.g., Turborepo, Rspack), with hands-on architectural credibility
• Expertise in performance and observability: Core Web Vitals, real user monitoring, and performance budgets enforced in CI
• Ownership of a transactional customer journey — discovery, cart, checkout, payment — including BFF architectures and multiple customer types or ordering modes on a single platform
• Demonstrated experience standing up front-end engineering organizations, not just inheriting them
• 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