Principal Software Engineer

Posted 12 Days Ago
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Boston, MA
182K-291K Annually
Mid level
Cloud • Fintech • Food • Information Technology • Software • Hospitality
We empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.
The Role
The Principal Software Engineer will work on expanding Toast’s platform for retail, identifying high-impact opportunities, planning and prototyping solutions, and making technical decisions for future strategies. The role emphasizes customer engagement through user interviews and focuses on delivering quality production software.
Summary Generated by Built In

Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.

Bready* to make a change?

On Toast's newest line of business, we are expanding Toast’s platform to work in retail locations.  We work with some of the most innovative concepts around, mixing food and retail. Think wine bars and markets, pizzeria + liquor stores, and boardgame cafés! We are led by two startup founders and thrive on rapid build-measure-learn feedback loops and listening to the customer at all stages of the product process.  We are looking for a motivated engineer to help build this product from the ground up.

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

  • Work closely with the leads to identify high-impact opportunities
  • Plan, scope and rapidly prototype solutions using a combination of web technologies
  • Make technical decisions and recommendations that will lay the foundation for the future of our strategy
  • Stay in tune with customer needs by participating in user interviews and research

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

  • Growth mindset with an emphasis on learning and self/team-improvement
  • Extensive experience building and shipping production software to customers
  • Experience with Kotlin, Java or other object oriented programming languages
  • Respectful, empathetic, and humble
  • Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild.
  • Startup mindset and comfort with ambiguity
  • Flexible in using different tech stacks and languages
  • Maintains a high bar of quality and an advocate for improvements in automated testing

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 required

The 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


We are Toasters

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success.

At Toast our employees are our secret ingredient. When they are powered to succeed, Toast succeeds.

The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse industries. We embrace and are excited by this diversity, believing that only through authenticity, inclusivity, high standards of respect and trust, and leading with humility will we be able to achieve our goals.

Baking inclusive principles into our company and diversity into our design provides equitable opportunities for all and enhances our ability to be first in class in all aspects of our industry.

Bready* to make a change? 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 [email protected].

Top Skills

Java
Kotlin

What the Team is Saying

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The Company
HQ: Boston, MA
4,500 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

Toast is the all-in-one platform built for restaurants of all sizes. Toast provides a single platform of software as a service (SaaS) products and financial technology solutions that give restaurants everything they need to run their business, including point of sale, payments, supplier management, digital ordering and delivery, marketing and loyalty, and team management. By serving as the restaurant operating system across dine-in, takeout, and delivery channels, Toast helps restaurants increase revenue, streamline operations and deliver amazing guest experiences.

Why Work With Us

Our recipe for an awesome workplace:

One splash of friendship
A dollop of impact
A sprinkle of no hierarchy &
A heavy spoonful of individuality

Mix these ingredients in a fast-paced and hardworking environment. Best paired with a side of interesting people who always bring their whole selves to work.

*100% Sunday scary free

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