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Principal Software Engineer, Team Management

ToastBoston, Massachussets, United States | Remote, Hybrid

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

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

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 requiredThe 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), equity, and benefits.Pay Range$182,000—$291,000 USD

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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.

Life at Toast

Toast is an all-in-one point-of-sale and restaurant management platform. As a cloud-based system built specifically for restaurants, Toast offers advanced functionality including tableside ordering, quick menu modifications, real-time enterprise reporting, online ordering, and labor management on an easy-to-use interface. Want to be a Toaster Join us! We move fast, work hard, have fun, and care deeply about our customers success. http://pos.toasttab.com/careers
Thrive Here & What We Value1. Commitment to Creating an Accessible and Inclusive Hiring Process2. Providing Reasonable Accommodations for Persons with Disabilities3. Enhancing Equitable Opportunities for All4. Baking Inclusive Principles into Our Company and Design5. Providing Competitive Compensation and Benefits Programs6. Embracing Diversity and Inclusion7. Focusing on Employee Development and Professional Growth8. Belief in Authenticity, Inclusivity, High Standards of Respect and Trust9. Emphasis on Baking Inclusive Principles into Company Culture1e Equitable Opportunities for All Employees12 Risk Assessment and Mitigation Plan Development13 Regulatory Change Monitoring and Awareness14 Subject Matter Expertise on International Laws and Regulations15 Uncapped Commissions for Eligible Roles16 Focusing on Operational Excellence17 Emphasis on Analytical Prowess

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