Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead

About Toast:

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.

Bready* to make a change?

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.

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

• Lead fellow developers, product managers, and designers, to build amazing Employee management features with a goal of making it easier for customers, their employees, and other toast teams to interact with employees.
• 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

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• Strong foundation in Java, Kotlin or other object oriented language(s)
• Expertise in utilizing AI tools throughout the development lifecycle.
• Exposure to building AI solutions for customers.
• 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 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.

AI at Toast

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.