Staff Software Engineer – Catering & Events

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Staff Software Engineer building scalable catering and events software for Toast, a restaurant technology company. Leading architecture, technical strategy, and AI-enabled engineering innovation across complex distributed systems.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead the design and delivery of complex, high-impact initiatives spanning multiple teams and systems from concept through production
  • Own and evolve critical-system architecture for scalability, reliability, and maintainability
  • Drive technical strategy, simplify systems, reduce complexity, and improve engineering velocity
  • Partner with Product, Design, and cross-functional stakeholders to shape ambiguous problems into actionable solutions with measurable customer impact
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship through guidance, design reviews, and hands-on collaboration
  • Establish and promote best practices for code quality, testing, observability, and operational excellence
  • Identify and address system-wide risks, performance bottlenecks, and scaling challenges
  • Champion AI and emerging technologies to improve developer productivity and drive organizational innovation

Requirements:

  • Proven experience leading the design and delivery of large-scale distributed systems in production
  • Strong backend expertise, preferably in Java or Kotlin, with ability to contribute across the full stack
  • Ability to design scalable architectures and make technical tradeoffs across systems and teams
  • Experience navigating ambiguity and aligning stakeholders
  • Technical leadership experience, including mentoring engineers and influencing engineering standards
  • Deep understanding of microservices architecture, system design, performance, reliability, and observability
  • Ability to decompose complex problems into strategies and guide execution
  • Strong product and customer mindset with a history of delivering user and business impact
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Experience using AI-based tools or platforms to improve engineering effectiveness or enable product capabilities

Benefits:

  • Cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible)
  • Equity
  • Benefits
  • Flexible work arrangements supporting changing employee needs
  • AI tools provided across disciplines
  • Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities during hiring