Principal Software Engineer-Menus

2 Months ago • 8 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $188,000 PA - $301,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Toast is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for their Menus team. This role involves leading the evolution of the menus architecture and data models to deliver scalable solutions with significant business impact. The engineer will define and implement frameworks and processes to ensure quality, resilience, and scalability of user experiences and API platforms. They will develop and execute technical strategies to solve complex business challenges, establish guiding technical and delivery principles, mentor engineers, and build partnerships across business lines. The company focuses on building a restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt and manage their operations, with menus being a central hub for configuration and customer experience.
Must have:
  • 8+ years of software engineering experience
  • Strong back-end development in Java, Kotlin, or object-oriented languages
  • Proficient with modern API standards (REST, GraphQL)
  • Proficient with relational databases and alternative data stores
  • Experience with distributed systems, messaging systems, and microservices
  • Ability to deliver high-impact, scalable solutions
  • Strong leadership and mentoring skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Passionate about innovation and improving engineering practices

Job Details

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.

Every restaurant is unique, and a restaurant’s menu expresses its individual brand and product offerings. Inside a Toast restaurant, the definition of the menu becomes the common language between guests, servers, and the kitchen. In our digital ordering products, a great menu serves as both a billboard and a roadmap to an excellent dining experience. It is the central hub for restaurant configuration– it determines what guests can order, how the dishes are presented and priced in different contexts, where they are routed for fulfillment and how they are coursed, how they are prepared, whether the ingredients are still available, and how they are classified for reporting. A menu is always evolving: kitchens create new dishes, managers experiment with pricing and presentation, and staff optimize the menu for restaurant operations. 

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

We create products to satisfy the vast breadth of our restaurants, from single-location coffee shops to complex enterprise brands with thousands of locations. We offer an extremely powerful and configurable menu platform, and our team exists to ensure that this flexibility can be managed effectively at any scale. This includes feature-rich menu data models, APIs for both first and third party integrations (eg: DoorDash and other ordering partners), and the user experiences for configuring menus that meet a vast variety of needs, from complex customer segments (eg: Pizza shops) to our evolving Retail platform. 

We are looking for a visionary engineer who is motivated by these challenges and eager to transform our menus architecture to meet the dynamic needs of our customers and our rapidly growing business. As a Principal Software Engineer on the Menus team, you will take ownership of this essential function, making strategic technical decisions that enhance our capabilities and ensure scalability. You will have the opportunity to make a huge impact in a critical space. Your leadership will drive excellence within the team and influence our broader engineering community, setting new standards and contributing to our collective success.

  • Lead the evolution of our Menus architecture and data models, delivering scalable solutions that have significant business impact.
  • Define and implement frameworks and processes that guarantee the quality, resilience, and scalability of our user experiences and API platform.
  • Develop and execute technical strategies to solve complex business challenges, leveraging data-driven decisions to prioritize impactful changes.
  • Establish guiding technical and delivery principles that influence engineering practices across the broader engineering organization.
  • Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, inclusivity, and engineering excellence.
  • Build and maintain strong partnerships across lines of business, aligning technical solutions with strategic objectives.

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

  • 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong background in back-end development using Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented languages
  • Proficient with modern API standards and technologies (e.g. REST, GraphQL)
  • Proficient with relational databases and alternative data stores
  • Experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems, and/or microservices
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver high-impact, scalable solutions in complex, multi-product environments.
  • Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with a track record of guiding teams through architectural transformations.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
  • Passionate about driving innovation and continuously improving engineering practices.


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), benefits, and equity (if eligible).

Pay Range
$188,000—$301,000 USD

 

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

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.

We Thrive Together

We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.

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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.

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