Hiring: Director of Engineering, Front-end and Ordering Platform (Remote) Company: ezCater Location: United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-13 12:27:34 Employment Type: Contract / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : Accessibility, Astro, CDN, CI/CD, CSS, Cloudflare, Design System, EKS, Event-Driven, Figma, Kafka, Next.js, OpenAPI, PostgreSQL, React, Shell, TypeScript About the job Required Skills: •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 Qualifications: •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 •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 •Demonstrated capacity to travel up to 5 days per quarter for Together Weeks, team gatherings and other events, when applicable. •Bonus Experience We'd Love To See •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 Compensation: •$250,000 - $334,000 / year •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •Bonus Experience We'd Love To See Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!