Toast is hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead to build a strong tech infrastructure that enables amazing features. You'll lead a collaborative team of developers, product managers, designers, and user researchers while driving significant end-to-end initiatives.
What You'll Do
- Lead fellow developers, product managers, designers, and user researchers to build a strong tech infrastructure.
- Drive challenging large end-to-end initiatives or core architecture changes in a supportive, collaborative team environment.
- Define and drive technical strategy for problems that affect multiple parts of the business.
- Mentor developers through code-pairing and detailed code, architecture, and project reviews.
- Champion best practices for development, deployment and quality life cycles.
- Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building.
What We're Looking For
- Strong technologist with extensive experience defining and implementing high scale SaaS solutions.
- Experience with a broad set of technologies including tiered web applications, microservices, mobile, API design patterns, Java, Kotlin, React, and data analytics.
- Experience with integration design patterns across high-scale, data-rich enterprise systems.
- A proven track record of building partnerships across engineering, product, customer success, and other stakeholders.
- Experience and interest in mentoring peers.
- Experience maintaining a high bar for quality, and guiding teams to hold a high bar for the technical quality of their deliverables.
- Strong customer empathy and a drive to make their lives better through a thoughtful user experience, robust technical solutions, and continuous product improvement.
- Hungry to take on and drive impactful projects from inception to execution.
Technical Stack
- Java
- Kotlin
- React
- Microservices
- API design patterns
- Data analytics
Team & Environment
You will lead fellow developers, product managers, designers, and user researchers.
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $155,000—$248,000 USD
Work Mode
This position is hybrid and available remotely within the United States.
Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process.




