Staff Software Engineer, Orders Pricing

Responsibilities

• Align the technical vision and roadmap for the pricing engine with Toast’s strategy as we expand into new verticals
• Lead the design and delivery of significant products and core capabilities that span multiple teams
• Be the domain expert for pricing — how discounts, taxes, and service charges compose — and the go-to partner for every team whose product touches the price of an order
• Drive architectural decisions for correctness, performance, and scale; author and review technical designs within and beyond the team
• Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, grow future technical leaders, and raise the engineering bar across the team and the broader Orders organization
• Enhance the team’s effectiveness by identifying systemic gaps in tooling, testing, and delivery practices and leading the work to close them
• Set the standard for operational excellence — observability, alerting, incident response, and learning from incidents — and keep pricing highly available in production
• Partner with Product, QA, and engineering leadership to shape priorities, weigh tradeoffs, and turn ambiguous problems into clear, executable plans
• Champion effective use of AI-assisted development across the team
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