Toast is a rapidly growing company that's revolutionizing how the restaurant industry does business by pairing technology with an extraordinary commitment to customer success. We help restaurants streamline operations, increase revenue, and deliver amazing guest experiences through our platform that combines restaurant point of sale, team management, guest-facing technology, and award-winning customer support. As a Toaster, you will be challenged to take on meaningful projects to help craft the company's future. Join us as we empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.
You’ll get to play a key role in shaping and guiding the teams that build the software that powers the payroll and team management solution for Toast restaurants. The Toast Payroll product delivers daily value to its users - enabling restaurant owners to pay their staff and pay their taxes, and enabling transparency for wages and tips for restaurant employees. The Toast Team Management suite allows restaurants to hire, manage, and schedule their staff.
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
- Lead fellow developers, product managers, designers, and user researchers to build a strong tech infrastructure that enables amazing features
- Flex your full-stack muscles by driving 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 across multiple teams 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 - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team.
Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)
- Strong technologist with extensive experience defining and implementing high scale SaaS solutions.
- Experience with a broad set of technologies that includes those used at Toast - tiered web applications, microservices, mobile, API design patterns, Java, Kotlin, React, 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.
- Hungry to take on challenging technical projects
AI at Toast
At Toast we’re Hungry to Build and Learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture.
Our Spread* of Total Rewards:
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.
- Hybrid workplace
- Flexible paid time off
- Pension plan
- Health insurance family plan
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Commuter benefits, bike to work
- Sabbatical opportunity after five years
- Professional Development Reimbursement Program
- Commitment to Employee Wellness through resources such as a quarterly Wellness Stipend
- Peer and company recognition programs
*Bread puns encouraged but not required
The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills and experience. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions, if eligible), benefits, and equity (if eligible).
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success
At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.
We Thrive Together
We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.
Apply today!
Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected].
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Top Skills
Toast Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office
Toast’s headquarters is located in the heart of the Seaport District. Toasters are surrounded by art, culture, and delicious cuisine in one of the most bustling neighborhoods in Boston.
Early Careers
Toast's Early Careers program is designed to launch students' careers by integrating them into the company's vibrant culture and impactful work. Interns and co-ops are treated as full-time Toasters from day one, given meaningful projects, and provided with mentorship from industry professionals. The program emphasizes hands-on learning, collaboration across teams, and the autonomy for students to develop and showcase their skills, supported by consistent feedback. Toast offers opportunities across various departments, including technical roles like Software Engineering and Data Science, as well as non-technical roles such as Human Resources and People Operations.
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