Senior Software Engineer (Frontend), Menus

Toast is a company that creates products to enhance the menu management experience for restaurants. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Frontend) to lead frontend architecture decisions, design scalable UI patterns, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to build best-in-class solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead frontend architecture decisions for complex, high-scale menu management workflows
• Design scalable, maintainable, and reliable UI patterns that support enterprise customers managing thousands of locations
• Build, deploy, and maintain resilient, scalable features within Toast’s menu management platform
• Collaborate with UX, PM, QA and Engineering to define, design, and build best-in-class solutions in a complex and fast-moving environment
• Champion best practices for development, deployment and quality life-cycles
• Contribute to and evolve Toast’s design system and shared frontend libraries to ensure consistency and scalability across products
• Guide the growth & development of peer engineers with mentoring and coaching
• Collaborate with team to plan and estimate work
• Influence frontend standards and best practices across Toast R&D

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience building and maintaining production software systems
• Deep experience building large-scale React applications with TypeScript
• Experience designing scalable component architectures and managing complex client-side state in large applications
• Experience designing and consuming GraphQL and REST APIs, including schema evolution, versioning, and client-side data management strategies
• Actively leverages AI-assisted development tools to accelerate iteration, improve code quality, and enhance architectural exploration
• Demonstrated ability to lead the design and delivery of high-impact, scalable solutions in complex, data-intensive user interfaces
• Experience contributing to or evolving shared component libraries or design systems used across multiple teams
• Experience monitoring and debugging production frontend systems using logging, metrics, and tracing tools
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Passionate about driving innovation and continuously improving engineering practices