Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Team Management

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy.

Toast is a rapidly growing company that's revolutionizing how the restaurant industry does business by pairing technology with an extraordinary commitment to customer success. We help restaurants streamline operations, increase revenue, and deliver amazing guest experiences through our platform that combines restaurant point of sale, team management, guest-facing technology, and award-winning customer support. As a Toaster, you will be challenged to take on meaningful projects to help craft the company's future. Join us as we empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to serve as Tech Lead for a team focusing to build one of the many Payroll and Team Management solutions that empower restaurant operators to efficiently handle scheduling, hiring, and payroll operations. You’ll play a key roll* in the design, development, and delivery of scalable software solutions that enable restaurant owners to build an optimal labor plan that balances interests in profitability, employee’s desire for predictability and flexibility, and guest satisfaction.

About this roll*:

As a Staff Software Engineer on our team, you will:

• Lead deep technical initiatives to increase our consumer footprint at Toast and employee engagement within restaurants
• Design solutions that anticipate and accommodate future needs while considering tradeoffs 
• Participate in architectural discussions and influence the technical roadmap
• Collaborate with teams of Design, Product, and other engineering members in developing robust and scalable full-stack software applications
• Champion engineering excellence to raise the bar for you, your team, and the company
• Leverage cutting-edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to influence what we build and how we build it

Do you have the right ingredients*? 

• 8+ years of back-end experience in Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented languages
• Proficient with modern API design (e.g. TypeScript, REST, GraphQL), relational databases or alternative data stores (e.g., PostgreSQL, DynamoDB), and front-end web technologies (e.g. React)
• Balanced expertise: Ability to design high-level technical solutions on a whiteboard while remaining deeply connected to code-level execution and system performance.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, with the ability to drive cross-team alignment and influence across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• A proven track record of building partnerships across engineering, product, customer success, and other stakeholders.
• Experience maintaining a high bar for quality their team’s deliverables and mentoring others.
• Strong customer empathy and a drive to make their lives better through a thoughtful user experience, robust technical solutions, and continuous product improvement.

For Engineering ICs:
Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team.

AI at Toast

At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture.

Our Total Rewards Philosophy 
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.