Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-17 Remote, Canada Hybrid ICT

Company shared salary

NA

Market rate

10,000 CAD–16,667 CAD/mo (120,000 CAD–200,004 CAD/yr)

Based on similar roles (title + domain + location).

About the Company

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. Toast is a rapidly growing company that's revolutionizing how the restaurant industry does business by pairing technology with an extraordinary commitment to customer success. We help restaurants streamline operations, increase revenue, and deliver amazing guest experiences through our platform that combines restaurant point of sale, team management, guest-facing technology, and award-winning customer support.

Responsibilities

  • 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

  • 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

  • Opportunity to work remotely