Principal Software Engineer Tech Lead (Retail)

Join Toast, a rapidly growing company in the retail technology space. As a Principal Software Engineer Tech Lead, you will design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems that are critical to our customers' success. You will also define and drive long-term technical architecture and strategy, mentor senior engineering talent, and diagnose performance bottlenecks. This is an opportunity to have a significant impact on the company's future growth and to work closely with customers to understand their needs and workflows.

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems that are critical to our customers’ success.
• Define and drive long-term technical architecture and strategy across the entire organization, aligning executive business goals with platform capabilities.
• Sponsor and mentor senior engineering talent (Staff and Senior Staff engineers) to grow the next generation of technical leaders across Toast.

• Embody a growth-oriented mindset focused on continuous elevation of your craft and domain
• Establish yourself as a trusted technical authority capable of making decisions that secure both immediate wins and long-term strategic goals
• Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild
• 9+ years experience building and shipping production software to customers
• Experience with Java, Kotlin, or other object oriented programming languages
• Approach your work with humility, empathy, and deep respect for your peers
• Startup mindset in driving initiatives and ability to find order in ambiguity
• Articulate sophisticated project roadmaps and empower engineering cohorts to drive them toward fruition