Toast is looking to expand its impact to other industries beyond restaurants, helping business operators delight their customers, do what they love, and thrive, by researching, developing, and scaling a new generation of products and business lines.
Requirements
- A track record of significant technical and business impact across multiple teams.
- Experience (or interest) in 0 -> 1 builds.
- Hands-on experience in building and operating complex, mission-critical, large-scale distributed systems in production environments.
- Expertise in distributed systems, asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, APIs, and integration patterns.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver clean, maintainable, and resilient code that withstands the test of time.
- Experience in communicating technical designs across teams and organizations.
- Proficiency in Kotlin (preferred) or Java
Responsibilities
- Lead backend development for a new team to address critical operator needs currently unmet by Toast.
- Own the architecture and backend implementation for key features and components for the New Venture across the Toast codebase.
- Understands operator needs and contributes to the team’s business strategy.
- Collaborate closely with New Ventures Leads to successfully launch an MVP and facilitate its scalable adoption by a broad customer base.
- Navigate diverse codebases across disciplines to consistently deliver high-quality code within established timelines.
- Demonstrate a high degree of ownership in all aspects of development.
- 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.
Other
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to unify and motivate cross-functional teams.
- Act as a collaborative and solution-oriented partner to leadership and colleagues.
- Ability to work in a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs.
- Commitment to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process.
- Ability to thrive in a culture that values diversity, equity, and inclusion.
