Engineering Manager 2, Real-Time Analytics

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. Over 180,000 restaurant businesses run on Toast.

OLAP Platform is the analytical data layer that powers real-time reporting for restaurants and agentic data access for AI-driven products across Toast. As Engineering Manager II, you will lead a growing engineering team in Dublin that owns this shared surface.

The team is in a pivotal stretch of work: scaling the platform to support more domains and consumers, keeping performance and cost in balance as it grows, and putting the governance in place to open it up safely to the next wave of AI-driven products. 

This is a role for an engineering leader who combines platform thinking, operational discipline, and strong cross-functional influence. You should be comfortable owning developer experience for internal engineering customers, driving technical strategy and creating clarity in a fast-moving environment.

• →Define and drive the technical direction, strategy and execution as the platform scales to more domains and consumers.
• →Build the partnerships that make a shared platform work - aligning with consumer team leads on roadmaps and onboarding, and representing OLAP's priorities and constraints in cross-team forums
• →Bring an AI-first approach to team workflow, reducing manual effort, accelerating issue resolution and shaping how the platform serves AI-driven consumers safely and at scale.
• →Build outcome-oriented operating mechanisms, including metrics and monitoring, that keep consumer teams unblocked and give the platform team early signals when something is breaking or getting hot.
• →Coach and mentor engineers, helping them grow technically and as leaders.
• →Operate effectively in a fast-moving environment where experimentation, iteration, and platform stability must coexist.

• 3+ years of experience leading high performing engineering teams, with experience of  platform teams or teams where internal developers were the primary consumer or end user.
• Strong background in data-heavy backend systems.
• Solid communication and leadership skills. Comfortable operating across team boundaries and building durable relationships and influence with consumer teams - OLAP touches almost every product area at Toast, and the role is as much cross-team alignment as internal execution.
• Ability to translate broad strategic goals into clear technical roadmaps and execution plans.
• A process-driven approach to engineering leadership, with experience creating operating mechanisms, metrics, monitoring, and feedback loops that improve outcomes over time.
• Track record of mentoring engineers and building inclusive, high-ownership teams.

• Deep experience in real-time analytics, search, streaming, or data platform work

At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture.

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.

We Thrive Together

We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.

Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.

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