Toast

Principal Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Retail

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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

1,001-5,000 employees

Toast is the operating system behind the hardest-working people out there — the restaurateurs and retailers running busy businesses. We build tools to match their effort, rigorously designed to perform under pressure, with 1,000 little features for every make-or-break moment. Our POS platform brings hardware, software, AI, and financial technology together to help operators get busy, stay busy, and run busy. We’re Toasters, proud to innovate alongside our customers. Want to join us? https://careers.toasttab.com/

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