Senior Software Engineer, Retail

Bready* to make a change?

At Toast, we’re passionate about empowering our customers — and that means growing beyond the restaurant industry to serve a whole new class of businesses. The Toast Retail team is at the forefront of this exciting evolution. We’re building innovative features that adapt Toast’s powerful platform to meet the unique needs of retailers, expanding our impact and delivering best-in-class experiences to a broader market.

Who We Are
The Toast Retail team is pioneering how Toast serves businesses beyond the restaurant space. We’re focused on building powerful, intuitive tools that meet the unique needs of modern retailers — inventory management, supplier relationships, purchase orders, and more. As a team, we operate like a startup within Toast, balancing greenfield development with the scale of a mature platform. We’re also building with AI to speed up our workflows, and incorporating AI into the product as well.

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

As a Senior Frontend Engineer on the Toast Retail team, you’ll play a leading role in designing and developing intuitive, performant, and delightful user experiences. You’ll work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to bring new features to life. If you love working in a fast-paced environment, driving innovation, and seeing your work make a real impact — we’d love to meet you. Here’s what you’ll be doing:

• Architect and implement modern, high-quality frontend experiences.
• Collaborate deeply with Product and Design to craft user-centric solutions tailored to the retail space.
• Mentor teammates, contribute to technical decisions, and help shape a strong engineering culture.
• Continuously improve UI systems and patterns, enabling rapid development of scalable features.
• Stay curious, explore emerging technologies, and find new ways to elevate the Toast Retail experience.

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• 5+ years of experience building modern web applications, with a strong frontend focus.
• Strong proficiency with React, TypeScript, and web standards (HTML5, CSS3).
• Solid understanding of component architecture, state management, and design systems.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and shipping user-facing features.
• Familiarity with REST APIs, GraphQL, and testing frameworks (Jest, Playwright, etc.).
• Passion for clean, maintainable code.
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving team, balancing quality and speed.
• Bonus: Experience in Retail software, or designing systems for new customer verticals.

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