Staff Software Engineer, Catering & Events (Remote)

Toast Tab, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 151,000 - 309,000; Full time

Job summary

Toast Tab, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Catering & Events. This remote role focuses on building scalable delivery workflows across services and teams, partnering with product and design to ship high-impact features rapidly.

You will lead architectural decisions, improve reliability, and mentor engineers while championing AI-driven improvements and platform health. This role emphasizes collaboration and execution in a fast-paced hospitality tech environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading the design and delivery of large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Strong backend expertise in Java or Kotlin with full-stack collaboration experience.
• Mentor engineers, influence engineering standards and practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of complex, high-impact initiatives spanning teams and systems.
• Own and evolve architecture for scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Drive technical strategy to simplify systems and improve velocity.
• Partner with Product, Design, and stakeholders to shape ambiguous problems into actionable solutions.
• Act as a technical leader and mentor to raise engineering excellence.
• Establish best practices for code quality, testing, observability, and operations.
• Identify and address risks, bottlenecks, and scaling challenges.
• Champion AI adoption to unlock new capabilities and productivity.

Skills

Distributed systems

Backend development

Java/Kotlin

Mentoring

Observability

AI tooling

Tools

Microservices

System design

Job description

Toast Tab, Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for Catering & Events. This remote role focuses on building scalable delivery workflows across services and teams, partnering with product and design to ship high-impact features rapidly.

You will lead architectural decisions, improve reliability, and mentor engineers while championing AI-driven improvements and platform health. This role emphasizes collaboration and execution in a fast-paced hospitality tech environment.