Director, Software Engineering
Director, Software Engineering
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About this Role:
As Director of Engineering in our Guest Line of Business in India you will be a hands-on engineering leader that will help us shape the scale and growth of Toasts Guest teams in India. You will be responsible for delivering the technical roadmap and contribute to the product roadmap definition & execution for mission critical services. You will start with small teams that deliver impact and gain expertise in Guest Marketing domain areas and you will grow the skills and size of your teams over time. You love finding creative ways to help your teams become more effective & efficient. You will connect your teams work to Toasts broader mission. You are a hands-on and entrepreneurial technical leader who is passionate about customer experience and will work closely with product & design counterparts to validate and deliver the customer job-to-be-done. On a given day you might be reviewing solution designs coordinating discussions between partner teams collaborating on roadmaps with architectural and product stakeholders and conducting 1:1s. This will be a heavily AI-focused role: you will be adept in using AI tools to not only make your own work more efficient but also increase the productivity of your team as well as directing your teams on building AI-first products to serve our customers needs.
Responsibilities:
- Drive delivery of business outcomes across multiple teams including planning and execution.
- Build AI-first products with AI-enabled teams: drive adoption of AI tooling across your team as well as building AI-first products for customers.
- Collaborate closely with all product lines in Guest (Marketing and Digital Storefront Consumer) across multiple geographies as well as the wider Toast organization in India Ireland and USA.
- Keep product quality high with continuous delivery improvements with responsibility for QA and AWS Infrastructure across the product
- Ensure end-to-end delivery of software including team ownership of monitoring and production issue remediation using technologies such as Splunk Datadog Sentry Fire Hydrant and more.
- Incorporate advances in software technology (such as LLMs DynamoDB Pulsar Kotlin Camel GraphQL Big Data technologies etc) into our solutions to ensure we make best use of industry best practices.
- Define & support career development plans for your team
- Mentor and coach both new and experienced Engineering Managers & Team Leads
- Grow teams to meet business needs
Core Requirements:
- Highly product-minded and hands on engineering leader willing to roll up sleeves and dive deep to learn and build new products and teams in a highly entrepreneurial environment.
- 15 years of experience in Engineering leadership
- Experience in a start-up environment and entrepreneurial mindset will be a distinct advantage.
- Experience with hiring and developing empowered teams and managers.
- Deep familiarity with latest developments in AI both from engineering tooling perspective as well as product offerings to customers
- Experience working in a globally distributed company
Experience in designing building and scaling B2B2C SaaS products with a focus on easy to use customer-centric experiences
- Experience with managing infrastructure operations and costs.
- Self starting leader with a bias towards action and the ability to balance between getting things done and making things perfect.
- A proven ability to influence decision-making at all levels within an organization
- A strong sense of empathy for customers and teammates
- A desire to build a diverse team that wins together and prioritizes customer success
Nice to Haves:
- Experience with Agentic systems Marketing and CRM software and Loyalty platforms
Diversity Equity and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success
At Toast our employees are our secret ingredientwhen they thrive we restaurant industry is one of the most diverse and we embrace that diversity with authenticity inclusivity respect and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.
We Thrive Together
We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally check out: today!
Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process please contact .
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Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full Time
