Staff Software Engineer - Tech Lead

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.

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.

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join in building the Scheduling product as part of Toast’s Team Management Suite for restaurant employers. You’ll play a key roll* in the design, development, and delivery of scalable software solutions that enable restaurant owners to build an optimal labor plan that balances interests in profitability, employee’s desire for predictability and flexibility, and guest satisfaction.

• →Lead fellow fellow developers, product managers, and designers, to build amazing Scheduling features with a goal of increasing our consumer footprint at Toast and employee engagement within restaurants
• →Flex your full-stack development muscles with challenging end-to-end tasks in a supportive, collaborative team environment
• →Participate in designing, estimating, implementing, testing, and debugging end-to-end solutions
• →Mentor developers through code-pairing and detailed code, architecture, and project reviews
• →Champion best practices for development, deployment and quality life cycles
• →Actively contribute to product design and feature selection discussions
• →Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team.

• 8+ years experience in Java, Kotlin or other object oriented language(s)
• Hands on experience with modern web standards and technologies (e.g. React, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL)
• A proven track record of building partnerships across engineering, product, customer success, and other stakeholders.
• Experience and interest in mentoring/leading peers
• Experience maintaining a high bar for quality, and guiding teams to hold a high bar for the technical quality of their deliverables.
• Strong customer empathy and a drive to make their lives better through a thoughtful user experience, robust technical solutions, and continuous product improvement.

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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