Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Toast is a technology company that helps restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer for their Catering & Events team to build and evolve a product that manages complex catering and event workflows. The role involves leading design initiatives, evolving system architecture, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of complex, high-impact initiatives that span multiple teams and systems, from concept through production, balancing short-term delivery with long-term system health
- Own and evolve the architecture of critical systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and long-term maintainability
- Drive technical strategy within your domain, identifying opportunities to simplify systems, reduce complexity, and improve engineering velocity
- Partner with Product, Design, and cross-functional stakeholders to shape ambiguous problem spaces into clear, actionable solutions with measurable customer impact
- Act as a technical leader and mentor, raising the bar for engineering excellence through guidance, design reviews, and hands-on collaboration
- Establish and promote best practices for code quality, testing, observability, and operational excellence across services
- Proactively identify and address system-wide risks, performance bottlenecks, and scaling challenges
- Champion the adoption of AI and emerging technologies to unlock new capabilities, improve developer productivity, and drive innovation across the organization
Skills
- Proven experience leading the design and delivery of large-scale, distributed systems in production environments
- Strong backend expertise (Java or Kotlin preferred) with the ability to influence and contribute across the full stack when needed
- Demonstrated ability to design scalable architectures and make high-quality technical tradeoffs across multiple systems and teams
- Experience navigating ambiguity and driving alignment across stakeholders to deliver impactful solutions
- Track record of technical leadership, including mentoring engineers and influencing engineering standards and practices
- Deep understanding of microservices architectures, system design, and operational considerations (performance, reliability, observability)
- Ability to decompose complex problems into clear strategies and guide teams through execution
- Strong product and customer mindset, with a history of delivering solutions that create meaningful user and business impact
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across organizational boundaries
- Experience leveraging AI-based tools or platforms to meaningfully increase engineering effectiveness and/or enable new product capabilities
Benefits
- Cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible)
- Equity
- Benefits
- Hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs
- Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process
Company Overview
Toast is a point-of-sale and restaurant management platform designed for businesses in the food service and hospitality industry. It was founded in 2011, and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://pos.toasttab.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Toast has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2026, 26 in 2025, 32 in 2024, 39 in 2023, 66 in 2022, 29 in 2021, 17 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.