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Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Payroll Onboarding

Toast Remote, USA Remote staff full-time

Salary

Zone A: $193,000-$309,000 USD, Zone B: $… per year

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Description

We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our dynamic Payroll Onboarding team, which supports the Payroll product for Toast restaurants.

You’ll play a key role in the design, development, and delivery of scalable software solutions that enable restaurant owners to configure Payroll accurately, while empowering internal Toast teams to support go-lives efficiently.

Responsibilities

  • Lead deep technical initiatives that improve functionality and reliability for Toast customers
  • Design solutions that anticipate and accommodate future needs while considering tradeoffs
  • Participate in architectural discussions and influence the technical roadmap
  • Collaborate with teams of Design, Product, and other engineering members in developing robust and scalable full-stack software applications
  • Advocate for best coding practices to raise the bar for you, your team, and the company
  • Mentor and provide technical guidance, acting as a force multiplier in improving engineering productivity
  • Leverage cutting-edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to influence what we build and how we build it

Requirements

  • 8+ years of back-end experience in Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented languages
  • Proven track record of leading technically complex, multi-team projects
  • Proficient with modern web standards and technologies (e.g. React, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL)
  • Proficient with traditional databases and alternative data stores
  • Experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems, and/or microservices
  • Experience delivering high-quality, reliable services to production
  • Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics

Benefits

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.

Salary

The base salary range for this role is: Zone A: $193,000-$309,000 USD Zone B: $168,000-$269,000 USD Zone C: $151,000-$242,000 USD

Skills

Required

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