Software Engineering Manager - Retail Experience

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.

The Toast Retail team is at the forefront of this exciting evolution. We’re building innovative features that adapt Toast’s powerful platform to meet the unique needs of retailers, expanding our impact and delivering best-in-class experiences to a broader market.

The Toast Retail team is pioneering how Toast serves businesses beyond the restaurant space. We’re focused on building powerful, intuitive tools that meet the unique needs of modern retailers — inventory management, supplier relationships, purchase orders, and more. As a team, we operate like a startup within Toast, balancing greenfield development with the scale of a mature platform. The Retail Experience (RXP) squad is a high-impact team focused on transforming Toast into a world-class experience for retailers. While retail adoption has grown significantly, we consistently hear that Toast doesn’t always feel like it was built for retail. RXP’s mission is to close that gap. We identify friction across the retail customer journey — from onboarding to daily operations — and deliver cohesive, retail-first improvements across Toast’s ecosystem.

Our work spans the Retail module and the broader Toast platform, ensuring that retail customers feel understood and supported from day one through long-term success.

As an Engineering Manager on the Retail Experience team, you’ll play a leading role in designing and developing intuitive, performant, and delightful user experiences. You’ll work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to bring new features to life. And you’ll play a leading role in organizing, strategizing, and prioritizing the team’s work. If you love working in a fast-paced environment, driving innovation, and seeing your work make a real impact — we’d love to meet you. Here’s what you’ll be doing:

• →Drive delivery of business outcomes, including planning and execution
• →Collaborate closely with PM and UX to define actionable, valuable work for the team
• →Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to help your teams accomplish their goals
• →Oversee end-to-end delivery of software, including team ownership of monitoring and production issues
• →Guide the team’s quality and testing strategy 
• →Coach engineers for professional and technical development 
• →Recruit and onboard new team members

• Experience managing engineering teams
• Experience writing, delivering, and operating software in a SaaS environment
• Experience mentoring and developing successful teams
• Experience deeply collaborating with PM and UX partners
• Strong technical background that you use to guide your team’s decisions and plans
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving team, balancing quality and speed
• A desire to build a diverse team that wins together and prioritizes customer success
• Bonus: Experience in Retail software, or designing systems for new customer verticals.

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 [email protected].

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