Senior Software Engineer - Frontend - Developer Portal

Toast is driven by building the all-in-one restaurant platform that helps restaurants operate their business, increase sales, engage guests, and keep employees happy. Toast connects employees, operations, and guests on a reliable, easy-to-use platform so restaurateurs can stay one step ahead of a rapidly evolving hospitality market. 

To do this Toast’s Developers use an internal developer platform centered around Spotify’s Open-Source product Backstage, in conjunction with a host of testing, automation and other tooling to guide their process and reduce toil. 

We are looking for a UI/UX focused Full stack Engineer who can help guide the evolution of our platform, streamline the experience of our developers, and work with internal product teams to deliver solutions that fit developers’ needs.

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

• Take a leading role in shaping the user experience in our internal developer portal
• Be part of a team working collaboratively with Product to create a single pane of glass for developers 
• Create and implement solutions, plugins that improve upon and extend the current portal offering
• Collaborate with teams across Toast, such as R&D, QA, and the developer advisory board
• Mentor and coach other team members
• Promote technical excellence 

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• High Proficiency in modern Javascript technologies, such as React/Node and TypeScript
• Experience with CSS and CSS frameworks
• Enjoys building well-engineered, usable and accessible systems
• Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild
• Ability to embrace an agile mindset focused on delivering usable software
• Familiarity with AWS/Cloud based design

Special Sauce* (Nice to Haves)

• Experience with Backstage
• Experience with MaterialUI
• Familiarity with Golang
• Strong fundamentals of UX/UI design

What we use to make our dish (Our Tech Stack)

• A core of Python, Java/Kotlin, and Golang based backend services.
• Backstage Open Source portal.
• PostgresQL and Dynamodb as core persistence.
• Deep AWS integrations and componentry
• Many more technologies that help us build a top class platform.

Our Spread* of Total Rewards
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.

*Bread puns encouraged but not required

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