Director of Engineering, ezCater

• 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

Desirable

• We are building a ground-up re-architecture of our platform – a headless, channel-agnostic core with AI as a cross-cutting layer
• The stack is modern and intentional: Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka (MSK), Temporal, Vespa, SpiceDB, EKS
• The front end is a first-class product — every API surface is designed to be consumed by multiple channels (marketplace, internal tools, partner API)
• You will lead Experience Engineering at ezCater – owning the front-end platform, ordering experience, and the full customer journey from discovery through cart, checkout, and draft order submission
• This is not a front-end lead role. You own the experience layer that turns a headless API platform into a product that customers use and that AI agents transact through
• You will lead three teams (Discovery Experience, Ordering Experience, and Front-End Platform) and report to the VP of Engineering
• 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