Principal Software Engineer

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 Principal Software Engineer, you'll 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.

You'll be responsible for leading fellow developers, product managers, designers, and user researchers to build a strong tech infrastructure that enables amazing features. You'll work on challenging large end-to-end initiatives and core architecture changes in a supportive, collaborative team environment. Your role will involve defining and driving technical strategy for problems that affect multiple parts of the business, mentoring developers across multiple teams, and championing best practices for development, deployment and quality life cycles.

This is an excellent opportunity for a seasoned technologist to make a significant impact on a product that directly affects thousands of restaurants and their employees. You'll be working with modern technologies including Java, Kotlin, React, and microservices architecture, while helping to shape the technical direction of critical business systems.

The role offers competitive compensation ($188,000—$301,000 USD) and comprehensive benefits including health insurance, pension plan, flexible PTO, and professional development opportunities. Join Toast to be part of a company that's making a real difference in the restaurant industry while working with cutting-edge technology.