Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Toast is a technology company that helps restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world. The Principal Software Engineer for the Configuration Platform will design and maintain critical systems that support real-time operations for customers, while also mentoring engineering talent and driving technical strategy.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- Proven track record of delivering and operating mission-critical production services at scale
- Maintain end-to-end ownership over high-throughput systems while navigating the complexities of distributed architecture
- 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
Benefits
- Hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs
- Provides AI tools across all disciplines (from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support)
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