About this role
Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy.
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.
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join in building the Scheduling product as part of Toast’s Team Management Suite for restaurant employers. You’ll play a key roll* in the design, development, and delivery of scalable software solutions that enable restaurant owners to build an optimal labor plan that balances interests in profitability, employee’s desire for predictability and flexibility, and guest satisfaction.
A day in the life (Responsibilities)
• Lead fellow fellow developers, product managers, and designers, to build amazing Scheduling features with a goal of increasing our consumer footprint at Toast and employee engagement within restaurants
• Flex your full-stack development muscles by turning ambiguous business goals into high-quality, production-ready code within a collaborative team environment
• Champion engineering excellence by elevating code quality across teams and mentor engineers via code-pairing, code review, and project reviews to help raise the overall technical bar
• Actively contribute to product design and feature selection discussions
What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)
• 8+ years of backend/full-stack experience, delivering products that drive impact
• Proficient with modern API design (TypeScript, REST, GraphQL) and relational databases or alternative data stores (e.g., PostgreSQL, DynamoDB).
• Balanced expertise: Ability to design high-level technical solutions on a whiteboard while remaining deeply connected to code-level execution and system performance.
• Excellent communication: Ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly to both technical peers and product leadership.
• Effectively works with ambiguity, agile delivery, and shipping usable software incrementally
• Experience and interest in mentoring peers
• Strong customer empathy and a drive to make their lives better through a thoughtful user experience, robust technical solutions, and continuous product improvement.
AI at Toast
At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with highe