Description
We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Retail to join our team at Toast. As a leader in the industry, we create technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world. Our Retail organization is focused on building foundational technology to support a rapidly expanding vertical.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems that are critical to our customers’ success
- Define and drive long-term technical architecture and strategy across the entire organization, aligning executive business goals with platform capabilities
- Design solutions that anticipate and accommodate future needs while considering tradeoffs
- Effectively communicate technical direction
- Sponsor and mentor senior engineering talent to grow the next generation of technical leaders across Toast
- Act as a force multiplier in improving engineering productivity
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations
- Leverage cutting-edge AI tools to enhance development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building
Requirements:
- 9+ years of experience building and shipping production software to customers
- Experience with Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented programming languages
- Approach work with humility, empathy, and deep respect for peers
- Articulate sophisticated project roadmaps and empower engineering cohorts to drive them toward fruition
- Startup mindset in driving initiatives and ability to find order in ambiguity
- Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use product in the wild
- Embody a growth-oriented mindset focused on continuous elevation of craft and domain
- Establish self as a trusted technical authority capable of making decisions that secure both immediate wins and long-term strategic goals
Our Total Rewards Philosophy:
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. The base salary range for this role is $230,000-$368,000 USD, $200,000-$320,000 USD, or $180,000-$288,000 USD depending on the geographic location.