Sr. Software Engineer of Developer Productivity & Performance

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. This role will help define, design, build, and maintain technology to advance the state of developer effectiveness at Toast and provide a world-class experience to engineers across the business.

We’re building a new developer-focused team and looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help design and implement technical solutions in this space. If you're the type of person that sees a problem and looks for solutions, asks why, and generally thinks, 'How can this be better?', then this may be the role for you. So, are you bready* to make a change?

Please note that this position is 100% remote

About this roll* (Responsibilities):

As a Senior Software Engineer you will be responsible for the technical leadership and solutions that improve the developer metrics for Toast engineers. In a typical week you will:

• Design, build, and maintain tooling and infrastructure to make software development at Toast a delight
• Review code to ensure technical implementation meets functional requirements
• Mentor and guide your peers, while also learning from their diverse experiences
• Collect and analyze data to drive future decisions to improve developer productivity
• 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

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements):

• You are respectful, empathetic, and humble
• You have a growth mindset with an emphasis on learning and self/team-improvement
• You have a bias towards action, with the ability to balance between getting things done and making things perfect
• You have a passion for making your peers more productive and efficient
• You have 3+ years or so of back-end or full stack software engineering experience in a SaaS environment

Special Sauce* (Nice to haves):

• Experience in developer tooling, developer productivity, infrastructure, developer platforms is a plus but definitely not necessary

Our Tech Stack: (The technologies that make it all happen):

Toast’s products run on a stack that ranges from guest and restaurant-facing Android tablets to backend services in Java to internal, guest-facing and restaurant-facing web apps. Our backend services follow a microservice architecture written using Java/Kotlin and DropWizard, deployed using containers (Docker); we use AWS extensively, ranging from S3 to RDS to Lambda. We have our own platform for dealing with user management, service elevations and robust load balancing. We store data in Postgres and DynamoDB. We are using Apache Pulsar to communicate between modules. The front-end is built primarily using React and ES6. The main Toast POS application is an Android application written in Java and Kotlin.

Our Spread* of Total Rewards (Benefits):

• Unlimited Vacation
• Sabbatical opportunity after five years
• 401(k) and matching
• Medical, dental, & vision coverage
• Mental Health Benefits
• 100% paid childbirth recovery medical leave
• 16 weeks of 100% paid parental leave
• Eligibility for 100% paid medical or family leave
• Subsidized backup childcare
• Professional Development Reimbursement Program
• Home office and telecommunications stipends
• Free access to Certified Financial Planners
• Commitment to Employee Wellness through resources such as a quarterly Wellness Stipend
• Various peer and company recognition programs

*Bread puns encouraged but not required*

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