Principal Software Engineer

Summary

Join Toast, a rapidly growing company revolutionizing the restaurant industry, 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, and define technical strategy. Mentoring developers and championing best practices are also key aspects of this role. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in high-scale SaaS solutions, a broad range of technologies (Java, Kotlin, React, etc.), and a proven track record of cross-functional collaboration. This position offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including a hybrid workplace and flexible paid time off.

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

• Hybrid workplace
• Flexible paid time off
• Pension plan
• Health insurance family plan
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Commuter benefits, bike to work
• Sabbatical opportunity after five years
• Professional Development Reimbursement Program
• Commitment to Employee Wellness through resources such as a quarterly Wellness Stipend
• Peer and company recognition programs