About The Company

Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.

About this roll*: (Responsibilities)

The Employee Cloud is a suite of products to help restaurants manage a product team and includes Payroll Team Management, Scheduling, Pay Card, and Tips Manager. As Employee Cloud’s Chief Architect, you will bring your wisdom, skills, and talents to help our teams build the best employee management suite for restaurants in the world.

In this role you will:

Report to the VP of Engineering for Employee Cloud.
Collaborate with our senior leadership on business and product strategy.
Set an architectural strategy for Employee Cloud that enables the business and product strategy.
Dive deep with our engineers and provide support, feedback, and coaching.
Identify the highest-impact areas for technical investment to make our teams more effective and our solutions higher quality.
Provide oversight for key projects so we get things right more often.
Organizational leadership including recruiting, promotions and performance feedback, strategic planning, MA, and cross-engineering mechanisms.

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Qualities Essential Skills)

Motivated by purpose to help restaurants thrive.
Deep experience in highly-complex business domains. We deal with complex business domains and many products that must work together cohesively while being able to be built and managed by independent teams.
Deep experience in large micro-service environments. We’re on a journey from monoliths to microservices and want your wisdom to help us avoid common pitfalls.
Effective communicating with a variety of audiences - engineers, product managers, designers, and senior leadership.
Deep experience operating mission critical systems reliably at scale. We want to proactively remediate risks before they become incidents.
Experience with our tech stack is a plus.
Experience in high-growth, public companies is a plus.

Our Tech Stack:

AWS supported microservices
A core of Kotlin/Java-based backend services.
React frontend leveraging GraphQL
PostgreSQL and Dynamodb as core persistence.
Pulsar and Camel for message-based integrations.

Our Spread of Total Rewards

Unlimited Vacation
Sabbatical opportunity after five years
Professional Development Reimbursement Program
Commitment to Employee Wellness through resources such as a quarterly Wellness Stipend
Various peer and company recognition programs
401(k) and matching
Medical, Dental, Vision Coverage
Mental Health Benefits
Subsidized backup childcare

*Bread puns encouraged but not required

We are Toasters

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success.

At Toast our employees are our secret ingredient. When they are powered to succeed, Toast succeeds.

The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse industries. We embrace and are excited by this diversity, believing that only through authenticity, inclusivity, high standards of respect and trust, and leading with humility will we be able to achieve our goals.

Baking inclusive principles into our company and diversity into our design provides equitable opportunities for all and enhances our ability to be first in class in all aspects of our industry.

Bready* to make a change? Apply today!

Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.

Senior Principal Software Engineer