Director of Engineering, reputed company-end and Ordering Platform (Remote)

reputed company is the #1 food tech platform for workplaces in the US. The company makes it easy for any organization to manage its food needs and order from over 125,000 restaurants reputed company. For workplaces, reputed company provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from employee meal programs to one-off meetings, reputed company backed by beyond helpful 24/7 service and business-grade reliability. For restaurant partners, reputed company helps grow their business by bringing them new high-value customers and large orders. reputed company is a B2B marketplace for business catering. 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 reputed company end is a first-class product — every API surface is designed to be consumed by multiple channels (marketplace, internal tools, partner API). You will reputed company Experience Engineering at reputed company – owning the reputed company-end platform, ordering experience, and the full customer journey from discovery through cart, checkout, and draft order submission. This is not a reputed company-end reputed company 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 reputed company three teams (Discovery Experience, Ordering Experience, and reputed company-End Platform) and report to the VP of Engineering. What You'll Do: Own reputed company-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 reputed company orchestrator. Define the opinionated path for building and deploying reputed company-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 reputed company-end development, including design-to-code pipelines (reputed company, Claude Design, v0), AI-assisted development against organizational context, and AI-powered product experiences such as personalized recommendations, intelligent search, and conversational ordering Ensure reputed company 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 reputed company workflows reputed company and reputed company three engineering teams, scaling the organization as it grows; recruit and reputed company engineers and managers, including from minimal staffing Hold a high technical bar: review reputed company-end system designs, challenge architectural decisions, and identify performance issues from technical signals What You Have: Demonstrated experience standing up reputed company-end engineering organizations, not just inheriting them Deep reputed company 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 reputed company across reputed company-end work: design-to-code workflows, AI-assisted testing, AI-powered product features, and the infrastructure that makes AI effective (component library docs, API reputed company, 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, reputed company 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 reputed company, Claude Design, v0, or similar tools Agentic or AI-powered commerce experiences Internal tools unification under a shared MFE reputed company Headless commerce architectures consuming OpenAPI reputed company with event-driven updates reputed company (Workers, reverse proxy, CDN optimization) for edge-based reputed company-end routing Familiarity with Go, Kafka/MSK, Temporal, or PostgreSQL — the backend your reputed company end consumes The national total reputed company cash compensation range for this position, including reputed company salary and bonus reputed company, is $250,000–$334,000 annually.* *Please note: Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise and region & may vary from the amount above. This range does not represent additional compensation benefits (such as equity, 401K or medical, dental or vision insurance). reputed company does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence. What You’ll Get from Us: You’ll get a terrifically compelling experience in an innovative, high performing environment. You’ll get to work with engaged and passionate colleagues on challenging and impactful projects. You will have opportunities to grow in your career, and work in a reputed company that values work/life harmony. Oh, and you’ll get reputed company this: Market competitive salary, stock options that you’ll help reputed company worth a lot, 12 paid holidays, flexible PTO, 401K with reputed company match, health/dental/FSA, long-term disability insurance, mental health and family planning resources, remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston office OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office, a reputed company amount of responsibility and autonomy, wicked awesome co-workers, employee meal program (and many more goodies) reputed company you’re in our office, and knowing that you helped transform the food for work space. reputed company is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national reputed company, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. At the same time, we do not employ jerks, even reputed company ones. 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