About this role
Location(s): US (remote), Boston (hybrid), or New York (hybrid)
Years spent building on the restaurant front lines taught us how to build for speed, reliability, and complexity. Built for the dinner rush, our cloud-based platform and tough hardware now power high-velocity operations beyond restaurants. Join us to expand Toast’s impact to other industries – helping all kinds of business operators delight their customers, do what they love, and thrive.
Bready* to make a change?
Toast’s New Ventures business unit has the goal of researching, developing, and eventually scaling a new generation of products and business lines that can have a substantial impact on Toast’s long-term growth. In this unique role, you will be one of the founding engineers on one of our New Venture teams. If you are the type of engineer who would love to build from scratch on the existing Toast ecosystem, this could be the perfect job for you.
We are in the early stages of building out features that cater to new types of establishments, and have seen an exciting level of interest in early conversations with operators. We’re scrappy and motivated to capture this growth, with many opportunities to make a big impact in this emerging space!
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
• Be a strong independent fullstack contributor for a new team to address critical operator needs currently unmet by Toast. Pair closely with Principal and Staff engineers to ship our roadmap.
• Bring frontend expertise to the team, establishing and advocating for best practices in frontend patterns to elevate our UI architecture and development standards.
• Contribute to the architecture and implementation of key features and components for the New Venture across the Toast codebase.
• Understand operator needs and contribute 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.
Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)
• Proficiency in React and modern frontend frameworks
• Proficiency in Kotlin (preferred) or Java
• A track record of significant technical impact on your team.
• Experience in 0 -> 1 builds .
• Strong experience with frontend patterns and architecture, with a proven ability to advise others on building scalable and maintainable frontend solutions.
• Hands-on experience in working within complex, large-scale distributed systems in production environments.
• Experience in distributed systems, asynchronous messaging, event-driven architec