Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead

Toast

Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead developing scalable software solutions at Toast for the restaurant industry. Leading projects that improve employee performance management and customer engagement.

Posted 5/18/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaSenior💰 CA$142,000 - CA$227,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GraphQLJavaKotlinReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead fellow developers, product managers, and designers, to build amazing Employee management features with a goal of making it easier for customers, their employees, and other toast teams to interact with employees.
Flex your full-stack development muscles with challenging end-to-end tasks in a supportive, collaborative team 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

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong foundation in Java, Kotlin or other object oriented language(s)
Expertise in utilizing AI tools throughout the development lifecycle.
Exposure to building AI solutions for customers.
Experience with modern web standards and technologies (e.g. React, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL)
A proven track record of building partnerships across engineering, product, customer success, and other stakeholders.
Experience and interest in mentoring peers
Experience maintaining a high bar for quality, and guiding teams to hold a high bar for the technical quality of their deliverables.
Strong customer empathy and a drive to make their lives better through a thoughtful user experience, robust technical solutions, and continuous product improvement.

Benefits

Comp & perks

competitive compensation and benefits programs
flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaKotlinAI toolsReactTypeScriptRESTGraphQLend-to-end developmentcode-pairingquality assurance

Soft Skills

mentoringcollaborationcustomer empathycommunicationleadershipproblem-solvingproject managementteam buildingstakeholder engagementuser experience focus