Engineering Lead, New Ventures

Toast, Inc.

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Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Boston, MANew York, NY
Salary
$230,000–$368,000 / yr
Posted
43 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Jan 27, 2027

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role pays more than 97% of similar roles. Most pay $161,812–$239,400 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $299k versus about $201k for comparable roles.

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About Toast, Inc.

Toast is a cloud-based restaurant management platform providing point-of-sale, payment processing, and operations software for the food service industry.

Toast, Inc. currently has 29 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $193,000–$309,000 across 29 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Engineering Lead, New Ventures

The Engineering Lead, New Ventures joins the New Ventures team to build a new product from zero to one. As a player/coach, you will lead a tight-knit team of five experienced engineers, driving engineering velocity and hands-on problem solving. Your daily responsibilities include writing code, fixing bugs, triaging customer issues, and partnering with the Product Lead on weekly sprints to weigh technical tradeoffs. You will establish shared engineering norms, navigate the broader ecosystem to unblock cross-team dependencies, and shape the technical strategy and architecture for new capabilities. The role requires experience with LLMs and shipping AI-powered product experiences. You will work within the hospitality technology domain to solve complex operational problems by balancing rapid iteration with long-term technical viability and high-quality delivery.

What you'll do

  • Lead and unblock a team of senior engineers to foster a culture of rapid iteration and technical excellence.
  • Act as a player/coach by writing code, fixing bugs, and triaging customer issues directly.
  • Partner with the Product Lead to manage weekly sprints and weigh technical tradeoffs.
  • Establish engineering norms, guardrails, and best practices to optimize for speed and high quality.
  • Navigate the broader Toast ecosystem to manage cross-team dependencies and technical collaborations.
  • Participate in customer feedback sessions to identify and solve specific user pain points.
  • Shape the technical strategy and architecture for a 0-to-1 product to balance speed with long-term viability.

What we're looking for

  • Proven experience taking a product from concept to an initial MVP and beyond.
  • Strong player/coach mentality with the technical depth to review designs, review code, and contribute directly.
  • Experience managing or leading small, high-leverage engineering teams in a lean environment.
  • Deep customer empathy with a track record of fixing bugs or triaging issues based on direct customer feedback.
  • Demonstrated ability to define shared engineering norms and guardrails that optimize for speed and impact.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills to weigh technical tradeoffs and define weekly priorities with Product Leads.
  • Experience building with LLMs or shipping AI-powered product experiences.
  • Experience in operationally complex industries, founder/early-startup experience, or time on an internal incubation team (preferred).

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