About this role

Toast is committed to empowering its customers by providing essential technology and resources. The Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead will be responsible for leading projects and designing scalable systems that enhance the customer experience across the Toast ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems that are critical to our customers’ success
Lead complex projects that span multiple teams to improve functionality and reliability for our customers
Design solutions that anticipate and accommodate future needs while considering tradeoffs
Effectively communicate technical direction, guide our team through execution while driving team quality practices
Act as a force multiplier in improving engineering productivity
Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations

Requirements:

Approach your work with humility, empathy, and deep respect for your peers
Articulate sophisticated project roadmaps and empower engineering cohorts to drive them toward fruition
Proven track record of delivering and operating mission-critical production services at scale
Maintain end-to-end ownership over high-throughput systems while navigating the complexities of distributed architecture
Embody a growth-oriented mindset focused on continuous elevation of your craft and domain
Establish yourself as a trusted technical authority capable of making decisions that secure both immediate wins and long-term strategic goals