Toast is hiring a Software Engineering Manager to lead the strategy and execution behind our core web platform and growth surfaces. You will shape how teams build, ship, and scale high-quality web experiences, guiding the evolution of component libraries, tooling, build systems, and micro frontend architecture to unlock faster experimentation and measurable customer impact.
What You'll Do
- Lead the technical vision and execution for Toast’s web platform and growth surfaces, driving business impact across the customer lifecycle.
- Create leverage for dozens of product teams by improving developer experience, performance, and reliability across hundreds of SPAs.
- Break down large platform and growth initiatives into clear, incremental milestones that deliver measurable outcomes.
- Establish and uphold frontend standards, architecture patterns, and best practices across the organization.
- Coach and mentor engineers and managers, helping them grow technically and as leaders.
- Operate effectively in a fast moving environment where experimentation, iteration, and platform stability must coexist.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years of experience leading high performing frontend or platform engineering teams in production environments.
- Strong background in modern web architecture, including component libraries, build systems, CI/CD, and microfrontend patterns.
- Experience owning or contributing to internal developer platforms that support multiple product teams.
- Demonstrated success partnering with product stakeholders to drive measurable growth outcomes such as activation or conversion improvements.
- Ability to translate broad strategic goals into clear technical roadmaps and execution plans.
- Strong communication and leadership skills with experience influencing senior technical and product leaders.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and building inclusive, high ownership teams.
Nice to Have
- Experience leading teams that sit at the intersection of platform enablement and customer facing product surfaces.
- Background in experimentation driven product development or product led growth environments.
Company Culture
We're hungry to build and learn. Learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is baked into our recipe for success. Our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive.
Work Mode
This role operates on a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs.
Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process.





