Principal Software Engineer

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.

Bready* to make a change?

On Toast's newest line of business, we are expanding Toast’s platform to work in retail locations.  We work with some of the most innovative concepts around, mixing food and retail. Think wine bars and markets, pizzeria + liquor stores, and boardgame cafés! We are led by two startup founders and thrive on rapid build-measure-learn feedback loops and listening to the customer at all stages of the product process.  We are looking for a motivated engineer to help build this product from the ground up.

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

• Work closely with the leads to identify high-impact opportunities
• Plan, scope and rapidly prototype solutions using a combination of web technologies
• Make technical decisions and recommendations that will lay the foundation for the future of our strategy
• Stay in tune with customer needs by participating in user interviews and research

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• Growth mindset with an emphasis on learning and self/team-improvement
• Extensive experience building and shipping production software to customers
• Experience with Kotlin, Java or other object oriented programming languages
• Respectful, empathetic, and humble
• Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild.
• Startup mindset and comfort with ambiguity
• Flexible in using different tech stacks and languages
• Maintains a high bar of quality and an advocate for improvements in automated testing

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.

*Bread puns encouraged but not required