Staff Software Engineer

Job Summary

Leading complex projects and designing scalable systems, the remote Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead will build and maintain critical infrastructure for Toast's ecosystem, enhancing functionality and reliability for customers.

Key responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems critical to customer success
• Lead cross-team projects to improve system functionality and reliability
• Communicate technical direction and guide the team in executing quality practices

Required qualifications

• Proven track record of delivering and operating mission-critical production services at scale
• Experience maintaining end-to-end ownership over high-throughput systems within distributed architectures
• Ability to articulate sophisticated project roadmaps and empower teams to achieve them
• Demonstrated growth-oriented mindset focused on continuous improvement in engineering practices
• Established technical authority capable of making strategic decisions for immediate and long-term goals