Principal Software Engineer Tech Lead, Toast
Retail
$180-368k
Salary depends on location. + Equity
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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
$180-368k
Salary depends on location. + Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
Toast's mission is to enrich the food experience for all.
Role
Who you are
- 9+ years experience building and shipping production software to customers
- Experience with Java, Kotlin, or other object oriented programming languages
- Approach your work with humility, empathy, and deep respect for your peers
- Articulate sophisticated project roadmaps and empower engineering cohorts to drive them toward fruition
- Startup mindset in driving initiatives and ability to find order in ambiguity
- Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild
- Embody a growth-oriented mindset focused on continuous elevation of your craft and domain
- Establish yourself as a trusted technical authority capable of making decisions that secure both immediate wins and long-term strategic goals
What the job involves
- The Retail organization at Toast is focused on building foundational technology to support a rapidly expanding vertical
- We emphasize early learnings and remain closely aligned with our customers, engaging in frequent conversations with our initial retail partners to understand their needs, pain points, and feature requests
- This direct feedback loop allows us to rapidly iterate and ensures we are building the right product for the market. As one of the fastest-growing verticals at Toast, we offer an opportunity to have a significant impact on the company's future growth
- We’re looking for engineers to help make our product work for our largest customers
- Think large grocery stores and your favorite local convenience store chain
- With their larger scale bring additional needs for integrations and back-office tools, beyond what the platform offers today
- This team works closely with customers — expect to visit stores and talk directly with operators to deeply understand their workflows
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems that are critical to our customers’ success
- Define and drive long-term technical architecture and strategy across the entire organization, aligning executive business goals with platform capabilities
- Design solutions that anticipate and accommodate future needs while considering tradeoffs
- Effectively communicate technical direction
- Sponsor and mentor senior engineering talent (Staff and Senior Staff engineers) to grow the next generation of technical leaders across Toast
- Act as a force multiplier in improving engineering productivity
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations
- 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
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.
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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
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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