Senior Principal Software Engineer - Remote/Hybrid Leader

Toast Tab, Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 368,000; Full time

Job summary

Toast is seeking an accomplished engineering leader to design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient systems for large retail customers. You will define long-term architecture and roadmaps, align with executive goals, and mentor Staff and Senior Staff engineers to cultivate the next generation of technical leaders.

You will influence engineering productivity, diagnose bottlenecks, and leverage AI tools to accelerate development while shaping a culture of innovation across the team.

Qualifications

• 9+ years experience building and shipping production software to customers.
• Experience with Java, Kotlin, or other object oriented programming languages.
• Approach your work with humility, empathy, and deep respect for your peers.
• Articulate sophisticated project roadmaps and empower engineering cohorts to drive them toward fruition.
• Startup mindset in driving initiatives and ability to find order in ambiguity.
• Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild.
• Embody a growth-oriented mindset focused on continuous elevation of your craft and domain.
• Establish yourself as a trusted technical authority capable of making decisions that secure both immediate wins and long-term strategic goals

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems that are critical to our customers’ success
• Define and drive long-term technical architecture and strategy across the entire organization, aligning executive business goals with platform capabilities.
• Design solutions that anticipate and accommodate future needs while considering tradeoffs
• Effectively communicate technical direction
• Sponsor and mentor senior engineering talent (Staff and Senior Staff engineers) to grow the next generation of technical leaders across Toast.
• Act as a force multiplier in improving engineering productivity
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations
• Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team.

Skills

Java/Kotlin

OO languages

Leadership & strategy

Customer-focused

Job description

Toast is seeking an accomplished engineering leader to design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient systems for large retail customers. You will define long-term architecture and roadmaps, align with executive goals, and mentor Staff and Senior Staff engineers to cultivate the next generation of technical leaders.

You will influence engineering productivity, diagnose bottlenecks, and leverage AI tools to accelerate development while shaping a culture of innovation across the team.