Toast
Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Scheduling
$151K–$309K
Remote, US +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Location
- Remote, US
Remote - USA - Experience
- 8+ years of back-end experience.
About the job
Leads the design, development, and delivery of scalable full-stack software for Toast’s restaurant Scheduling product.
What you'll do
- Lead technical initiatives, shape architecture and the technical roadmap, and design solutions that account for future needs.
- Collaborate with Design, Product, and engineering teams to build robust, scalable applications and maintain engineering quality.
- Use AI tools to improve development workflow and velocity and explore new approaches to building products.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of back-end experience in Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented languages.
- Proficiency with modern API design (TypeScript, REST, GraphQL) and relational databases or alternative data stores (e.g., PostgreSQL, DynamoDB).
- Ability to design high-level technical solutions while staying connected to code-level execution and system performance.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, cross-team alignment, stakeholder partnerships, and a high bar for quality.
Pay
$193,000 — $309,000 USD base salary; $168,000 — $269,000 USD base salary; $151,000 — $242,000 USD base salary
Tools
Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB
AI focus
Use AI tools to enhance development workflow, improve velocity, and pioneer approaches to building; hiring AI is used for interview note-taking, summarization, and documentation, while hiring decisions are made by people.
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