Staff Software Engineer, Toast
Developer Experience
$151-309k
+ Equity. Salary dependent on location
Point of sale and management system for restaurants
Be an early applicant
Point of sale and management system for restaurants
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$151-309k
+ Equity. Salary dependent on location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Toast's mission is to enrich the food experience for all.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Deep expertise in at least one general-purpose language (e.g. Kotlin, Java, Go, or TypeScript) and comfort working across several
- Strong experience with build systems and dependency management at scale (e.g. Gradle, Maven, npm), including managing software migrations across hundreds of services
- A track record of leading technical initiatives across multiple teams, from defining the problem through design, delivery, and adoption
- Experience designing developer-facing products such as CLIs, SDKs, shared libraries, testing frameworks, or portals, with a focus on usability and adoption
- Hands-on experience with, and strong opinions about, AI-assisted development tools and agentic development practices
- Strong communication skills, including writing clear technical strategy and design documents and influencing without authority
- Deep empathy for engineers as customers, and a habit of measuring outcomes rather than shipping features
Desirable
- Experience with internal developer portals or service catalogs (e.g. Backstage)
- Experience building or integrating LLM-powered developer tools, coding agents, or MCP servers
- Experience with containerized or cloud-based development environments (e.g. Dev Containers, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS)
- Experience defining and instrumenting developer productivity metrics (e.g. DORA, SPACE, build and test analytics)
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to set the technical direction for how Toast engineers build software
- You'll pick the highest-leverage problems in the developer workflow, design solutions that work across hundreds of services and many teams, and stay hands-on while you build them
- AI is quickly changing what developer tooling can do, and you'll help define what an AI-native developer experience looks like at Toast
- Set technical direction and long-term architecture across Developer Experience's areas: local development, build tooling, shared libraries, and the developer portal
- Oversee the architecture of the testing frameworks and core libraries used for developing web services
- Stay hands-on: design, build, and ship the highest leverage and most cross-cutting parts of the platform yourself
- Collaborate with Product using data and direct engineer feedback to find the biggest sources of friction in the developer workflow, and help turn them into a prioritized, measurable roadmap
- Design self-service golden paths and paved roads that let product teams create and evolve services with minimal friction or hand-holding
- Drive technical alignment with partner teams in areas like AI, CICD and Cloud Infrastructure so the end-to-end developer journey feels like one cohesive experience
- Partner with customer-facing teams to align developer platform solutions with customer and business needs
- Raise the bar across the team through design reviews, mentorship, and code-pairing, and by growing other engineers into technical leaders
Our take
Running a restaurant means managing a stressful set of elements, all needing to work together seamlessly to create a good experience for diners. Toast helps to streamline processes and puts an end to piles of paperwork by providing a platform whereby tableside ordering, menu modifications, labour management, payroll, and more are all housed in one system that can run from a tablet.
Toast offers restaurant-grade hardware and cloud-based, customisable payment solutions to serve clients from startup through to growth phase, as well as a service for established restaurants. By combining all the digital services a restaurant might need, the platform can act as a comprehensive solution for restaurants of any size, saving restaurateurs from having to invest in a range of technologies.
Toast has over 70,000 restaurants on its books, from food trucks to national brands, and its mobile ordering and payment solutions have made it a recognized brand for consumers. The company's IPO in 2021 saw it valued at over $30 billion, and since then, it has added more features to its product suite, including wholesale and catering order tools. Toast has proven its place as an indispensable player in the restaurant space.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2020
$400m
SERIES F
Apr 2019
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $899m
Company benefits
- Peer and company recognition programs
- Unlimited Vacation
- Sabbatical opportunity after five years
- Professional Development Reimbursement Program
- Commitment to Employee Wellness through resources such as a quarterly Wellness Stipend
- Various peer and company recognition programs
- 401(k) and matching
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage
- Mental Health Benefits
- Subsidized backup childcare
Company HQ
Fort Point Channel Landmark District, Boston, MA
Leadership
Steve Fredette
(Co-Founder & President)They studied at MIT before co-founding Klick Mobile in 2009 and spending almost 7 years at Endeca. They left their Management role in June 2012 having co-founded Toast in May.
Aman Narang
(Co-Founder & CEO)Having studied Computer Science at MIT, they worked at Endeca for 5 years. They moved from working as Product Manager to work full-time as President of Toast in 2013, having co-founded it the previous year.
Jonathan Grimm
(Co-Founder & CTO)They also studied Computer Science at MIT before working as an Engineer for Endeca for over 4 years. They worked at Oracle for 5 months prior to co-founding Toast in May 2012.
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