Principal Software Engineer, Toast
Android
$188-301k
+ Equity
Point of sale and management system for restaurants
Open for applications
Point of sale and management system for restaurants
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$188-301k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
Toast's mission is to enrich the food experience for all.
Role
Who you are
- Ideally 8+ years of experience delivering mobile products to a large customer base
- Experience in mobile codebases with dozens of developers
- Deep experience with Java, Kotlin, and Android
- Experienced at communicating technical designs and contributing to the design process
- History of technical and business impact across multiple teams
- Collaborative and solution-oriented partner to business and product leaders
What the job involves
- The Toast POS app is the central pillar of Toast’s restaurant products
- Every day, many thousands of servers, hosts, bartenders, and chefs use Toast’s POS to serve millions of guests!
- At Toast, Android isn’t just one of multiple mobile platforms -- Android is the foundational technology stack for our POS products
- In fact, Toast designs and sells our own specialized Android tablets so we can provide the best integrated hardware/software products
- Our POS Payments Experience team powers some of the restaurant’s most critical workflows (checking out, taking payments) across a coordinated network of tablets and peripherals that are typically used for 10-12 hours a day
- The POS needs to work as fast as possible, and if the network has problems, the POS needs to keep running
- Addressing these demanding requirements means pushing our technology stack to the limits
- While the technical challenges are demanding, the impact of our work on our customers is tangible and direct
- Our customers spend all day using the POS
- When we design new features with a great UX, we can improve the staff’s job satisfaction, the guest experience, and the restaurant’s bottom line
- Small changes in the tightest loops pay off many thousands of times over
- Innovative new features from Toast help our restaurants thrive in the face of today’s ever-changing restaurant landscape
- We are seeking an experienced technologist with the demonstrated ability to make a cross-team impact to join our POS Payments Experience team. This is a hands-on technical role that includes a large component of technical design, cross-team collaboration across POS and Fintech teams, and large-scale technical problem-solving
- Establish technical direction for the Toast POS payments space, in collaboration with architectural leaders and experienced engineers
- Accountable for technical quality of Toast POS payments workflows
- Drive continuous improvement of architecture, codebase and technical practice
- Collaborate with technical and non-technical leaders to break down business problems into projects that can be executed across the organization
- Lead software design for major payments-related features and components, and support less experienced engineers in the software design process
- Mentor less experienced engineers and contribute to their growth
- Lead effort estimation and use sound judgment to enable planning of projects
- Act as a force multiplier for the Restaurant engineering organization overall
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 the one and comprehensive solution for restaurants of any size, avoiding restaurateurs 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 then, has proven its place as an indispensable player in the restaurant space.
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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
Fenway–Kenmore, Boston, MA
Leadership
Steve Fredette
(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
(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
(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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