Staff Software Engineer - Pricing Engine Leader

Candidate; Northern (KY); Híbrido; USD 151.000 - 242.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Hybrid work model

AI-powered development tools

Competitive compensation & benefits

Descripción de la vacante

Toast is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Orders Pricing team to own the pricing rules, discounts, taxes, and service charges across the order lifecycle. You will drive architecture, mentor engineers, and lead cross-team efforts to scale and evolve the pricing platform.

The role emphasizes collaboration with Product, QA, and leadership to shape priorities and deliver high-impact capabilities, with a focus on reliability and production excellence. A hybrid work model is supported.

Formación

• 8+ years of back-end experience.
• Track record delivering significant products across multiple teams.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Expertise with REST/GraphQL API technologies, schema design and evolution.
• Production ownership of business-critical services and incident response.
• Strong relational data modeling with large-scale databases.
• Proven mentoring ability and cross-team influence.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to align teams.

Responsabilidades

• Align the pricing engine tech vision with Toast’s strategy for new verticals.
• Lead design and delivery of products spanning multiple teams.
• Be pricing domain expert for discounts, taxes, and service charges.
• Drive architecture decisions for correctness, performance, and scale; review designs.

Conocimientos

Backend development

Distributed systems

API design

Mentoring engineers

Java/Kotlin stack

Effective communication

Pricing domain knowledge (nice to have

Herramientas

PostgreSQL

AWS

Kubernetes

DynamoDB

RDS

Pulsar

Spark

DropWizard

Descripción del empleo

Toast is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Orders Pricing team to own the pricing rules, discounts, taxes, and service charges across the order lifecycle. You will drive architecture, mentor engineers, and lead cross-team efforts to scale and evolve the pricing platform.

The role emphasizes collaboration with Product, QA, and leadership to shape priorities and deliver high-impact capabilities, with a focus on reliability and production excellence. A hybrid work model is supported.