Staff Software Engineer

9 Hours ago • All levels • Software Development & Engineering • $129,000 PA - $206,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Toast is seeking a Staff Software Engineer - Tech Lead for their Payroll team. This role involves leading fellow developers, product managers, designers, and user researchers to build strong tech infrastructure and drive challenging large end-to-end initiatives or core architecture changes. The engineer will define and drive technical strategy, mentor developers through code-pairing and reviews, and champion best practices for development, deployment, and quality life cycles. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience defining and implementing high scale SaaS solutions, proficiency in a broad set of technologies including Java, Kotlin, React, and API design patterns, and experience with integration design patterns across enterprise systems. Strong customer empathy and a drive to improve user experience are also essential.
Must have:
  • Lead developers, product managers, designers, user researchers
  • Drive challenging end-to-end initiatives
  • Define and drive technical strategy
  • Mentor developers through code-pairing/reviews
  • Champion best development practices
  • High-scale SaaS solutions experience
  • Experience with Java, Kotlin, React
  • API design patterns experience
  • Integration design patterns experience
  • Customer empathy
Good to have:
  • Experience with data analytics
Perks:
  • Competitive compensation and benefits
  • Healthy lifestyle support
  • Flexibility to meet changing needs

Job Details

Title: Staff Software Engineer - Tech Lead, Payroll
Location: Canada - Remote 


Bready* to make a change?

Toast is a rapidly growing company that's revolutionizing how the restaurant industry does business by pairing technology with an extraordinary commitment to customer success. We help restaurants streamline operations, increase revenue, and deliver amazing guest experiences through our platform that combines restaurant point of sale, team management, guest-facing technology, and award-winning customer support. As a Toaster, you will be challenged to take on meaningful projects to help craft the company's future. Join us as we empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.

You’ll get to play a key role in leading, shaping and guiding the team that builds the software that powers the payroll and team management solution for Toast restaurants.  The Toast Payroll product delivers daily value to its users - enabling restaurant owners to pay their staff and pay their taxes, and enabling transparency for wages and tips for restaurant employees.  

 

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

  • Lead fellow developers, product managers, designers, and user researchers to build a strong tech infrastructure that enables amazing features
  • Flex your full-stack muscles by driving challenging large end-to-end initiatives or core architecture changes in a supportive, collaborative team environment
  • Define and drive technical strategy for problems that affect multiple parts of the business
  • Mentor developers through code-pairing and detailed code, architecture, and project reviews
  • Champion best practices for development, deployment and quality life cycles

 

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

  • Strong technologist with extensive experience defining and implementing high scale SaaS solutions.
  • Experience with a broad set of technologies that includes those used at Toast - tiered web applications, microservices, mobile, API design patterns, Java, Kotlin, React, data analytics.
  • Experience with integration design patterns across high-scale, data-rich enterprise systems.
  • A proven track record of building partnerships across engineering, product, customer success, and other stakeholders.
  • Experience and interest in mentoring peers
  • Experience maintaining a high bar for quality, and guiding teams to hold a high bar for the technical quality of their deliverables.
  • Strong customer empathy and a drive to make their lives better through a thoughtful user experience, robust technical solutions, and continuous product improvement.
  • Hungry to take on and drive impactful projects from inception to execution.

 

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

#LI-REMOTE

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
$129,000—$206,000 CAD

 

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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