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Staff Software Engineer, Employee Lifecycle Management

HybridLeadPosted Aug 19, 2026
JavaKotlinReactTypeScriptGraphQLAI+1 more

About this role

Lead full-stack development of employee management features for Toast's restaurant platform. Design and deliver scalable solutions that help restaurant operators measure performance, incentivize staff, and grow their teams. Mentor engineers while championing quality and best practices across the development lifecycle.

Must have

Strong foundation in Java, Kotlin or other object oriented languages

Expertise in utilizing AI tools throughout the development lifecycle

Exposure to building AI solutions for customers

Experience with modern web standards and technologies including React and TypeScript

Proven track record of building partnerships across engineering product and customer success

Experience and interest in mentoring peers

Experience maintaining a high bar for quality and guiding teams to hold high technical standards

Strong customer empathy and drive to improve lives through thoughtful user experience

Technologies

JavaReactTypeScriptKotlinRESTGraphQLAI

Responsibilities

Lead fellow developers product managers and designers to build employee management features

Flex full-stack development muscles with challenging end-to-end tasks in collaborative environment

Participate in designing estimating implementing testing and debugging end-to-end solutions

Mentor developers through code-pairing and detailed code architecture and project reviews

Champion best practices for development deployment and quality life cycles

Actively contribute to product design and feature selection discussions

Benefits

EquityFlexible time offPaid parental leaveHealth insuranceDental insuranceVision insuranceCompetitive salaryRemote workProfessional development

Recruitment process

1

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in digital world

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Employee Development team focuses on experiences enabling customers to manage performance and growth

3

AI tools provided across all disciplines to build faster more independently and with higher quality

4

Hybrid work model fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs

5

Diversity equity and inclusion embedded into culture and design

6

All hiring decisions are made by people with AI supporting note-taking and summarization only