Principal Software Engineer, Tech Lead

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for the Config Platform team, owning the technical vision, architecture, and quality of the systems we build and operate
• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems that are critical to our customers’ success, staying hands-on in the code and the details
• Lead the modernization of our architecture for scale and drive the technical vision for enterprise-grade change management, so customers can confidently audit and manage changes across thousands of locations
• Define and drive long-term technical architecture and strategy across the entire organization, aligning executive business goals with platform capabilities
• Partner with Engineering Management, Product, and
• Design to shape the roadmap, turn ambiguous problems into well-scoped, sequenced plans, and drive execution through to delivery
• Design solutions that anticipate and accommodate future needs while considering tradeoffs
• Lead technical design reviews and set a high bar for code quality, testing, and operational excellence across the team
• Effectively communicate technical direction and build alignment with the Toast engineering teams that build on top of our platform
• Own the operational health of the highest-trafficked service at Toast: diagnose performance bottlenecks, implement optimizations, and lead incident response and follow-through

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