Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience

🔥 4 minutes ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $151k - $309k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤝 Developer Relations (DevRel)

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Toast

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2013

🍽️ Food & Beverage

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Food & Beverage • Consulting • Logistics

Toast is a technology company that specializes in providing integrated software and hardware solutions for the restaurant industry. Their offerings include a comprehensive restaurant management platform that features point of sale (POS) systems, payment processing, online ordering, payroll management, and various operational tools designed to streamline restaurant operations. Toast's platform is tailored to meet the needs of diverse restaurant types, including quick service, full service, fast casual, fine dining, cafes, and food trucks. They also provide resources like industry insights and educational materials to support restaurant success.

📋 Description

• Set technical direction and long-term architecture across local development, build tooling, shared libraries, and the developer portal • Oversee the architecture of testing frameworks and core libraries used for developing web services • Design, build, and ship high-leverage, cross-cutting platform components • Collaborate with Product using data and engineer feedback to identify workflow friction and create a prioritized, measurable roadmap • Design self-service golden paths and paved roads for product teams to create and evolve services • Drive technical alignment with AI, CI/CD, and Cloud Infrastructure partner teams • Partner with customer-facing teams to align developer platform solutions with customer and business needs • Raise the team's technical bar through design reviews, mentorship, code-pairing, and developing technical leaders

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience • Deep expertise in at least one general-purpose language, such as Kotlin, Java, Go, or TypeScript • Comfort working across several programming languages • Strong experience with build systems and dependency management at scale, such as Gradle, Maven, or npm • Experience managing software migrations across hundreds of services • Track record of leading technical initiatives across multiple teams from problem definition through design, delivery, and adoption • Experience designing developer-facing products such as CLIs, SDKs, shared libraries, testing frameworks, or portals • Focus on usability and adoption • Hands-on experience with and strong opinions about AI-assisted development tools and agentic development practices • Strong communication skills, including clear technical strategy and design documentation and influencing without authority • Deep empathy for engineers as customers and a habit of measuring outcomes rather than shipping features • Experience with internal developer portals or service catalogs, such as Backstage, preferred • Experience building or integrating LLM-powered developer tools, coding agents, or MCP servers, preferred • Experience with containerized or cloud-based development environments, such as Dev Containers, Docker, Kubernetes, or AWS ECS, preferred • Experience defining and instrumenting developer productivity metrics, such as DORA, SPACE, or build and test analytics, preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits programs • Cash compensation, including overtime and bonus/commissions if eligible • Equity • Benefits supporting a healthy lifestyle • Flexible benefits to meet changing needs • Hybrid work model valuing individual needs • Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities