Senior Software Engineer, AI-Native Platform (Remote)
ezCater, Inc · Boston, MA
$158,000–$190,000from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Boston, MA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior backend engineering role focused on building shared platform services, APIs, and workflow orchestration that support administrative, integration, and transaction-heavy use cases across the business. The work involves designing reliable distributed systems and applying AI tooling throughout the development lifecycle. Go experience is strongly preferred, and candidates should have at least five years of backend production experience.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 27,200 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 16,300–49,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
Go is 'strongly preferred' per the posting's own framing, but it sits in the hard-requirements block alongside Java as an accepted alternative; both are treated as a single gated requirement on backend language proficiency.
The AI-assisted development requirement is unusually prominent and explicitly gated — the JD calls out 'fluency' and 'clear judgment' as required, not merely nice-to-have. Claude, Codex, and Cursor are named only as illustrative examples in narrative context and are listed as preferred/alternatives rather than hard gates.
The compensation range ($158,000–$190,000/year) covers total target cash (base + bonus); equity, 401K, and benefits are stated as additional and not included in this figure.
The role is remote-eligible nationally (tagged #BI-Remote) but also has a hybrid option from the Boston office; Boston is used as the primary CBSA.
'Distributed systems' and 'event-driven architecture' are named as required capabilities but refer to design patterns rather than specific named tools — retained because the JD explicitly gates on them as experience areas.
Fintech/payments and integration platform experience appear only under the 'Nice to Have' section.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): AI-assisted development, workflow orchestration.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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