Principal Software Engineer

Toast

Boston, MA

Full Time

Senior

188k-188k

6 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

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. You'll get to play a key role in shaping and guiding the teams that build the software that powers the payroll and team management solution for Toast restaurants.

Key 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

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

Nice to Have

Experience with high-scale SaaS solutions
Knowledge of restaurant or hospitality industry systems
Familiarity with hybrid work environments and collaborative team tools

Qualifications

Experience with SaaS solutions and relevant technologies
Proven leadership and mentorship skills
Strong technical background in web applications, microservices, mobile, API design, Java, Kotlin, React, data analytics

Benefits & Perks

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
Employee wellness resources such as a quarterly Wellness Stipend
Peer and company recognition programs

Working at Toast

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. We embrace diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. We create equitable opportunities for all and aim to build a strong culture of connection through a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while respecting individual needs.

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