Staff Software Engineer, Tech LeadActive

The opportunity

At Toast, we are committed to empowering our customers by providing the technology, resources, and community they need to thrive. While our roots are in food service, we are rapidly expanding into adjacent markets and international territories.

What you'll do

  • Scale and Resiliency: We are the highest-trafficked service at Toast. Our platform is mission-critical to core operations like ordering and business management; if we aren't performing, the business stops.

  • Expanding the Vision: We are advancing a sophisticated change management vision. We give customers the confidence and precision tools they need to manage complex configurations and run their global businesses with ease.

  • Platform Enablement: Beyond serving end-users, we are an ever-evolving internal platform. We aim to empower other Toast engineering teams to build, deploy, and scale their own features quickly on top of our robust architecture.

  • Future-Proofing: As our customer base grows at a phenomenal rate, we are re-architecting our infrastructure to handle increasing technical complexity and global scale.

  • Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems: that are critical to our customers’ success

  • Lead complex projects that span multiple teams to improve functionality and reliability for our customers

What they're looking for

  • Design solutions that anticipate and accommodate future needs while considering tradeoffs
  • Effectively communicate technical direction, guide our team through execution: while driving team quality practices
  • Act as a force multiplier in improving engineering productivity
  • Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations