Toast

Principal Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Retail

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2 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$180k - $368k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, deploy, and maintain resilient and scalable production systems for retail customers.
  • Define and drive long-term technical architecture and strategy across the organization.
  • Design forward-looking solutions, evaluate tradeoffs, and communicate technical direction.
  • Sponsor and mentor Staff and Senior Staff engineers.
  • Improve engineering productivity and act as a force multiplier across the team.
  • Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations.
  • Engage directly with customers, including visiting stores and speaking with operators to understand their workflows.

Requirements

  • 9+ years of experience building and shipping production software to customers.
  • Experience with Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented programming languages.
  • Ability to articulate sophisticated project roadmaps and empower engineering cohorts to execute them.
  • Experience driving initiatives with a startup mindset and navigating ambiguity.
  • Ability to establish trusted technical authority and make decisions balancing immediate wins with long-term strategy.
  • Humility, empathy, respect for peers, passion for user outcomes, and a growth-oriented mindset.

Benefits

  • Base salary ranges from $180,000 to $368,000 USD depending on geographic pay zone, skills, experience, and location, excluding additional compensation components.
  • Total rewards include equity, benefits, and potentially overtime and bonus or commission compensation if eligible.
  • Work arrangement options include remote work in the US or hybrid work in Boston and New York, with regional in-office expectations.
  • Toast provides an inclusive hiring process and reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities.

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About Toast

5,001-10,000 employees

Toast builds an all-in-one, cloud-based POS and restaurant management platform combining software, Android-based terminals, and integrated payments for restaurants. Revenue comes from SaaS subscriptions, hardware sales, and payment processing, with add-ons such as online ordering, delivery integrations, and payroll. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, it is a public company on the NYSE serving single-location eateries to multi-unit groups across the U.S. and expanding internationally.

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