Senior Software Engineer (Fullstack), New Ventures

Toast is a company that aims to expand its impact beyond the restaurant industry through its New Ventures business unit. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to be a founding engineer on a new team, responsible for building features and components that address operator needs and contribute to the business strategy.

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

Requirements:

• Proficiency in React and modern frontend frameworks
• 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 architecture, APIs, and integration patterns, especially as they relate to front end clients
• Demonstrated ability to deliver clean, maintainable, and resilient code that withstands the test of time
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills
• Experience in communicating technical designs within their team
• Act as a collaborative and solution-oriented partner to leadership and colleagues
• Proficiency in Kotlin (preferred) or Java