Principal Software Engineer, Orders Cloud Sync
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Job Location:
Boston, NH - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
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 are looking for a Principal 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 Principal Software Engineer on this team youll 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 150000 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 success
- Lead complex projects that span multiple teams to improve functionality and reliability for our customers
- Design solutions that anticipate and accommodate future needs while considering tradeoffs
- Effectively communicate technical direction guide teams through execution and drive organizational quality practices
- Act as a force multiplier in improving engineering productivity
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations
- Leverage 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 youll need to thrive (Requirements):
- You are respectful empathetic and humble
- You have experience presenting an architecture vision and helping teams realize it
- You have experience shipping complex mission critical production services
- You have ownership over entire products and experience scaling distributed systems
- You have a growth mindset with an emphasis on improving yourself and your functional area
- You are viewed as a leader in your functional area and are trusted to make technical decisions that impact short and long term business objectives
Our Tech Stack
Our products run on a stack that ranges from guest and restaurant-facing Android tablets to backend Kotlin and Java services to internal guest-facing and restaurant-facing web apps. Our backend services follow a microservice architecture written using Kotlin/Java and DropWizard; we use AWS extensively ranging from DynamoDB to RDS to Lambda. We have our own platform for dealing with user management canary deployments and robust load balancing. We store data in a set of sharded Postgres databases and utilize Apache Spark for large scale data workloads including query and batch processing. The web front-end is built using React and ES6. Our main point of sale application is an Android application written in Java and Kotlin. For data between tablets and our cloud platform we rely on Pulsar event driven architecture along with some RabbitMQ clusters as well as direct tablet communication to the back end.
AI at Toast
At Toast one of our company values is that were hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster more independently and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; its a core part of our culture.
Our Total Rewards Philosophy
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract retain and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills and experience. In addition to base salary our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime bonus/commissions if eligible) benefits and equity (if eligible).
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Python
- System Design
- Agile
- C/C++
- Go
- Systems Engineering
- Software Development
- Java
- Distributed Systems
About Company
Toast is a restaurant point of sale and management system that helps restaurants improve operations, increase sales and create a better guest experience.
