Staff Software Engineer (Orders Pricing)

Join Toast, a technology company dedicated to helping restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Orders Pricing team, you will be responsible for the pricing engine that determines how every order is priced, including rules, discounts, taxes, and service charges. You will guide the technical direction for the pricing platform, deliver significant products and core capabilities, and mentor other engineers. This role requires strong experience with relational databases, distributed systems, and modern web standards.

• Align the technical vision and roadmap for the pricing engine with Toast’s strategy as we expand into new verticals.
• Lead the design and delivery of significant products and core capabilities that span multiple teams, serving as the domain expert for pricing.
• Drive architectural decisions for correctness, performance, and scale; author and review technical designs within and beyond the team.

• Track record of delivering significant products or core capabilities across multiple teams
• Experience owning business-critical services in production — leading incident response and driving long-term reliability improvements
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and multiply the effectiveness of a team
• Strong experience with relational databases and alternative data stores, including data modeling and migrations at scale
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to build alignment across teams and explain complex tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences
• Deep experience designing and operating distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems, and microservices at scale
• Expertise with modern web standards and API technologies (e.g. REST, GraphQL), including schema design, evolution, and versioning across many consumers
• 8+ years of back-end experience
• Nice to have: experience with pricing, tax, payments, or other correctness-critical commerce systems