<div class="content-intro"><p><a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/ezcater">ezCater</a> 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 nationwide. For workplaces, <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/ezcater">ezCater</a> provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from employee meal programs to one-off meetings, all backed by beyond helpful 24/7 service and business-grade reliability. For restaurant partners, <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/ezcater">ezCater</a> helps grow their business by bringing them new high-value customers and large orders.</p></div><p style="line-height: 1.5;">Search is the front door of the <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/ezcater">ezCater</a> marketplace. Every browse, search, filter, and discovery experience runs through the systems this team owns, directly shaping customer experience, order volume, and our long-term platform advantage.</p><p style="line-height: 1.5;">As the Engineering Manager of our Search Platform, you’ll lead the team responsible for how customers discover restaurants across <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/ezcater">ezCater</a>, including the search engine, the indexing pipeline that feeds it, and the availability services that determine which restaurants can fulfill an order. We’re actively replatforming search, and this role will help strengthen the team while guiding the architecture, delivery, and operational maturity of that new foundation.</p><p style="line-height: 1.5;">This is a technical management role reporting to the Director of Engineering. You'll manage engineers directly, stay close to key technical decisions, and help the team improve relevance, freshness, reliability, and platform usability for internal partners.</p><h3>What You’ll Do</h3><ul><li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Lead delivery and technical quality across query serving, indexing, availability, and the APIs and contracts other teams depend on.</li><li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Set technical direction for the search stack, including engine architecture, document schema, indexing and query patterns, ranking strategy, and migration sequencing.</li><li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Own the freshness and correctness of the index and the availability domain so customers see restaurants that can actually fulfill an order.</li><li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Stay close to the technical work by reviewing designs, challenging assumptions, and helping the team de-risk architecture and delivery decisions.</li><li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Build a culture of measurement, experimentation, and continuous improvement in search quality, platform reliability, and operational perfor