Staff Frontend Software Engineer, Toast
Point of sale and management system for restaurants
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Point of sale and management system for restaurants
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
Toast's mission is to enrich the food experience for all.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer with a passion for UI craft, scalable systems, and design systems
- 8+ years of experience building and scaling web applications, with deep expertise in modern frontend technologies (React, TypeScript, CSS-in-JS, etc.)
- Demonstrated leadership in building or maintaining component libraries or design systems
- Passion for frontend fundamentals – accessibility, animation, responsive design, and cross-browser behaviour
- Strong systems thinking – able to anticipate scaling challenges, encourage reusability, and design for change
- Enthusiasm for the future of development – curiosity about AI-assisted coding, tooling, and emerging patterns
- Familiarity with analytics tooling (Amplitude, GA, etc.) and A/B testing platforms
- Experience influencing product and design decisions through code and conversation
- A bias for collaboration, learning, and raising the bar for frontend craft
What the job involves
- This role will guide the technical direction of Buffet, Toast’s cross-platform component library – a foundation for Toast’s user experience across products
- You’ll be central to how we build accessible, performant, international-ready interfaces at scale and help define how component libraries evolve in a world of AI-assisted development
- This is a high-impact, cross-functional role for an individual who excels at the intersection of design, engineering, and product development
- You’ll work closely with design system leaders, product engineers, and platform teams to build systems that unlock frontend velocity and consistency
- Lead technical strategy and architecture for Buffet, Toast’s design component library and underlying systems
- Champion best-in-class accessibility, performance, and internationalisation across frontend surfaces
- Evolve Buffet to meet the needs of AI-assisted development, enabling safe and scalable component generation and usage
- Partner closely with Design, Product, and Engineering to align system capabilities with team needs and product strategy
- Build and document scalable patterns, tooling, and abstractions to support experimentation and high-quality delivery
- Influence cross-team efforts around theming, responsive design, content surfaces, and shared UI frameworks
- Be a mentor, multiplier, and technical sounding board across the frontend community at Toast
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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