Principal Software Engineer/Architect - xtraCHEF
Now, more than ever, the Toast team is committed to our customers. Our focus is on building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love. And because our technology is purpose-built for restaurants, by restaurant people, restaurants can trust that we’ll deliver on their needs for today while investing in experiences that will power their restaurant of the future. The xtraCHEF by Toast product line is centered around the restaurant backoffice. Through products like the AP Automation, Inventory, procurement and bill payment, we help restaurant operators manage their food cost and improve productivity.
As Principal Software Engineer of our xtraCHEF by Toast team, you will help shape the definition & creation of a new suite of products that help restaurants improve their back of the house operations. You will influence product direction through technical insight & contribute to the technical roadmap for the evolution of the product. You will grow the skills of your teams over time. You love finding creative ways to help your teams become more effective & efficient. You will connect your teams’ work to Toast’s broader mission. You are passionate about customer experience and will work closely with product & design counterparts to validate and deliver the customer ‘job-to-be-done’. On a given day, you might be reviewing solution designs, implementing product code, coordinating discussions between partner teams, and collaborating on roadmaps with architectural and product stakeholders.
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
- Design, build, deploy and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems that are critical to our customer’s success
- Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers
- Review code to ensure technical implementations meet functional requirements
- Mentor and coach other engineers
- Maintain and upgrade existing software
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations
- Supervise and oversee the technical aspects of projects
- Participate in a scheduled rotation of engineers on your team who respond to production alerts for the services you own
- Work with remote and overseas teams residing in multiple time zones
Do you have the right ingredients? (Experience)
- Experience with building and operating software in a SaaS environment and ability to work with multiple object-oriented technologies
- A strong sense of empathy for customers and teammates
- Capability tobalance getting things done with platform stability
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- Experience shipping critical product services
- Experience in software development methodologies
- Extensive experience writing .NET or other object-oriented language, with deep understanding of testing, quality and best practices
- Extensive experience building products with microservice and event-driven architectures
- Extensive experience with AWS especially with serverless services
- Extensive experience with container technologies and scaling distributed systems
*Bread puns encouraged but not required
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