Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Toast, a rapidly growing company revolutionizing the restaurant industry with technology and customer success focus, as a key player in shaping the payroll and team management software. You will lead developers, product managers, and designers to build a strong tech infrastructure, drive large-scale initiatives, define technical strategy, and mentor other developers. This role requires extensive experience in high-scale SaaS solutions, diverse technologies (Java, Kotlin, React, etc.), integration design patterns, and building cross-functional partnerships. The company offers a competitive compensation and benefits package, including a hybrid work model. The salary range is $188,000-$301,000 USD. Toast is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Requirements

• Strong technologist with extensive experience defining and implementing high scale SaaS solutions
• Experience with a broad set of technologies that includes those used at Toast - tiered web applications, microservices, mobile, API design patterns, Java, Kotlin, React, data analytics
• Experience with integration design patterns across high-scale, data-rich enterprise systems
• A proven track record of building partnerships across engineering, product, customer success, and other stakeholders
• Experience and interest in mentoring peers
• Experience maintaining a high bar for quality, and guiding teams to hold a high bar for the technical quality of their deliverables
• Hungry to take on challenging technical projects

Responsibilities

• Lead fellow developers, product managers, designers, and user researchers to build a strong tech infrastructure that enables amazing features
• Flex your full-stack muscles by driving challenging large end-to-end initiatives or core architecture changes in a supportive, collaborative team environment
• Define and drive technical strategy for problems that affect multiple parts of the business
• Mentor developers across multiple teams through code-pairing and detailed code, architecture, and project reviews
• Champion best practices for development, deployment and quality life cycles

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits programs
• Cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible)
• Equity
• Benefits
• Hybrid work model