The opportunity
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.
What you'll do
Own the technical vision and end-to-end architecture of the Intelligence: Platform, from early design through production rollout
Work hands-on with Kotlin/Java, Spark and Iceberg on Toast's data lake,: writing the code that sets the pattern for others
Move fast from idea to proof of concept: ship early versions, get feedback from Marketing and other partners, and iterate
Build privacy and compliance into the platform from the start: work with Legal, Investor Relations, Privacy and Data Science to define the data-access rules and minimum group sizes, and enforce them in code so every published number is aggregated, anonymized and auditable
Create reusable building blocks so every data product on the platform meets: the same bar for quality and safety
Design the flows that let tools and AI agents access the data efficiently, safely and at scale
What they're looking for
- Partner with Marketing, Product, Legal, Investor Relations and Data Science: to turn business goals into a technical roadmap
- Set the bar for reliability and quality, and mentor other engineers through: design reviews, code reviews and the example you set
- Use AI tooling as a genuine force multiplier in your day-to-day work and help the team do the same
- + years in software engineering, building data-intensive or distributed: systems, including technical leadership of projects involving multiple teams
