Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Toast creates technology that helps restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world. The Principal Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Retail will lead the design and evolution of resilient, scalable retail systems, define organization-wide technical strategy, mentor senior engineers, and improve engineering productivity while partnering closely with customers.
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
- * 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
- **Location(s):** US (remote), Boston (hybrid), or New York (hybrid) - **EST preferred**
Benefits
- Cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible)
- Equity
- Benefits
- We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs.
- We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support.
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