Principal Software Engineer - Developer Platform
Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.
Toast is scaling rapidly and with that growth comes exciting challenges in how we evolve our developer ecosystem to ensure the high efficiency of Toast engineers and external partners — while also providing a platform that is reliable and sustainable. In this role you will help define, design, build, and maintain technology to advance the state of developer effectiveness at Toast and provide a world-class experience to developers across the business.
We’re building a new developer-focused team and looking for a Principal Engineer to help architect and design our technical solutions in this space. In pursuit of greater developer efficiency, this team will:
- Partner with Toast infrastructure and platform teams to enable greater developer productivity.
- Partner with product teams to ensure designs that optimize developer efficiency and other infrastructure concerns such as scalability and reliability
- Design and build tooling & infrastructure to address our developers’ greatest pain points
- Create a culture of automated tooling along with the infrastructure to enable product teams to easily test their own code
- With a Product Management partner, establish our developer experience principles: How our products should feel to developers and the core metrics that we will track to measure success
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
As the Principal Engineer in this organization you will be responsible for the technical leadership and solutions that improve the developer metrics for Toast engineers.
- Define the metrics that we should care about, track, and work to improve
- Design technical solutions to some of our most complex developer problems, including but not limited to improved Cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, and test automation
- Help guide an engineering team in their implementation of these solutions, as well as contribute hands on where necessary
- Work with other engineering groups to design solutions that better optimize developer efficiency
- Drive delivery of business outcomes across multiple teams, including planning and execution
- Establishing strong working relationships with peer infrastructure and product teams
- Influence architecture decisions in your team and more broadly across Toast to optimize developer efficiency
Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)
- You are respectful, empathetic, and humble
- Experience designing and implementing solutions to developer problems
- Passionate about APIs, tools, and test automation with a focus on enabling developer efficiency
- You have extensive experience writing Java or another object-oriented language, with a deep understanding of testing, quality, and best practices
- A bias towards action, with the ability to balance between getting things done and making things perfect
- Experience scaling infrastructure as a business grows rapidly
- Deep understanding of Cloud infrastructure
- Passion for making your peers more productive and efficient
Our Spread of Total Rewards
- Unlimited Vacation
- Sabbatical opportunity after five years
- Professional Development Reimbursement Program
- Commitment to Employee Wellness through resources such as a quarterly Wellness Stipend
- Various peer and company recognition programs
- 401(k) and matching
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage
- Mental Health Benefits
- Subsidized backup childcare
*Bread puns encouraged but not required
We are Toasters
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success.
At Toast our employees are our secret ingredient. When they are powered to succeed, Toast succeeds.
The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse industries. We embrace and are excited by this diversity, believing that only through authenticity, inclusivity, high standards of respect and trust, and leading with humility will we be able to achieve our goals.
Baking inclusive principles into our company and diversity into our design provides equitable opportunities for all and enhances our ability to be first in class in all aspects of our industry.
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