Staff Software Engineer

[Applicants: Over 200 applicants | Industry: Software Development, Technology, Information and Internet, and IT Services and IT Consulting | Type: Full-time | Level: Mid-Senior level] Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Orders Cloud Sync Team.On the Orders Cloud Sync Team, our mission is to provide a state of the art platform for processing and synchronizing changes to orders that enables Toast to build complex and customizable workflows for our customers.As a Staff Software Engineer on this team, you’ll play a key role in designing and implementing new features, evolving our architecture and tooling to ensure efficient high-quality delivery, and working with many other Toast R&D teams to bring high-visibility product experiences to life, ensuring that over 1 billion order changes per week across over 150,000 customers are processed quickly and accurately.A Day In The Life (Responsibilities)Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems that are critical to our customers’ successLead complex projects that span multiple teams to improve functionality and reliability for our customersDesign solutions that anticipate and accommodate future needs while considering tradeoffsEffectively communicate technical direction, guide our team through execution while driving team quality practicesAct as a force multiplier in improving engineering productivityDiagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizationsLeverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team.What You'll Need To Thrive (Requirements)You are respectful, empathetic, and humbleYou have experience presenting complex project plans and helping teams realize themYou have experience shipping complex mission critical production servicesYou have ownership over complex high-scale systems and experience scaling distributed systemsYou have a growth mindset with an emphasis on improving yourself and your functional areaYou are viewed as a leader in your functional area and are trusted to make technical decisions that impact short and long term business objectivesOur Tech StackOur products run on a stack that ranges from gues...