We’re not your traditional tech company and we don’t aim to be. Going against the grain is in our DNA. Building a revolutionary product begins with revolutionary thinking. That’s why we value diversity background and lived experience. Together, we empower restaurants of all sizes to build great teams, increase revenue, improve operations, and delight their guests. We pair our deep understanding of the restaurant industry with powerful cloud based software and restaurant-grade hardware to deliver an intuitive all-in-one platform. Join us on our mission to empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive. 

Bready* to make a change?

Toast is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to play a technical leadership role on the team responsible for our Core Menu Configuration APIs and UI Pages. The Toast system currently supports a wide variety of configurations and pricing structures for a restaurant’s menu items. These menu items are then published and referenced by our Android tablets (keyed by waitstaff), consumers (online orders) and partners (via our APIs). These items are used in the process of creating and updating every single order that enters the system. In order to meet the demands of scale and complexity, we will need to build a system that is both increasingly extensible, robust, scalable and deliverable continuously. We need your help to improve our platform and add the next generation of features to this critical part of our product.

About this roll*: 

• Work with our CTO, Chief Architect, as well as Senior engineering and product leadership to define the architectural vision and technical roadmap for team’s areas of ownership
• Hands on contributions to help the team design, build and maintain performant, flexible and highly scalable web applications
• Work in a cross team fashion to ensure appropriate technical information is communicated appropriately with the rest of the organization (both ways)
• Ensure the team has the right technical support to deliver high quality results in all aspects of the software life cycle
• Help the team in defining monitoring, performance, deployment, and elevation strategies for their production services to serve hundreds of millions of requests
• Technical coaching, mentoring, teaching of the team’s developers

Do you have the right ingredients*? 

• Proficient with an Object Oriented Language; Java or Kotlin is a plus
• Proficient with tiered web application architecture and databases
• Experience delivering high quality, reliable services to production
• Experience delivering and maintaining APIs with external stakeholders
• Front-end experience including CSS and Javascript including familiarity with responsive design and SPAs. React or GraphQL experience is a plus.
• Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics 
• Prior experience as tech lead or architect
• Experience with microservices or a SaaS product is a plus

*Bread puns encouraged but not required