Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Catering & Events team, you’ll help build and evolve a product that enables customers to manage complex catering and event workflows with ease.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of complex, high-impact initiatives that span multiple teams and systems, from concept through production, balancing short-term delivery with long-term system health
- Own and evolve the architecture of critical systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability
- Drive technical strategy within your domain, identifying opportunities to simplify systems, reduce complexity, and improve engineering velocity
- Partner with Product, Design, and cross-functional stakeholders to shape ambiguous problem spaces into clear, actionable solutions with measurable customer impact
- Act as a technical leader and mentor, raising the bar for engineering excellence through guidance, design reviews, and hands-on collaboration
- Establish and promote best practices for code quality, testing, observability, and operational excellence across services
- Proactively identify and address system-wide risks, performance bottlenecks, and scaling challenges
- Champion the adoption of AI and emerging technologies to unlock new capabilities, improve developer productivity, and drive innovation across the organization
Skills
- Proven experience leading the design and delivery of large-scale, distributed systems in production environments
- Strong backend expertise with the ability to influence and contribute across the full stack when needed
- Demonstrated ability to design scalable architectures and make high-quality technical tradeoffs across multiple systems and teams
- Experience navigating ambiguity and driving alignment across stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions
- Track record of technical leadership, including mentoring engineers and influencing engineering standards and practices
- Deep understanding of microservices architectures, system design, and operational considerations (performance, reliability, observability)
- Ability to decompose complex problems into clear strategies and guide teams through execution
- Strong product and customer mindset, with a history of delivering solutions that create meaningful user and business impact
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across organizational boundaries
- Java or Kotlin preferred
- Experience leveraging AI-based tools or platforms to meaningfully increase engineering effectiveness and/or enable new product capabilities
Benefits
- Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs.
- Overtime
- Bonus/commissions if eligible
- Equity
- Benefits
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- We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support.
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