Staff Software Engineer, Orders Pricing

Toast, Inc.

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Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$193,000–$309,000 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Dec 30, 2026

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $210k
This role $251k
$153k most similar roles pay here $326k

This role pays more than 76% of similar roles. Most pay $169,484–$250,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $251k versus about $210k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 23 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $191,500–$306,500 across 22 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Orders Pricing

Staff Software Engineer, Orders Pricing will join the Orders Pricing team to manage how every order is priced, including rules for discounts, taxes, and service charges. This role serves as a domain expert for pricing logic while leading the design and delivery of core capabilities across multiple teams. You will drive architectural decisions for correctness and scale, mentor engineers, and improve operational excellence in production environments. The technical stack includes Kotlin, Java, DropWizard, and AWS services like DynamoDB, RDS, and Lambda. You will work with sharded Postgres databases, Apache Spark, Pulsar, and RabbitMQ, while also contributing to Android POS applications. This role solves the complex problem of maintaining a high-performance pricing engine that must remain accurate across diverse business verticals and various touchpoints from cloud systems to point-of-sale hardware.

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What you'll do

  • Align the technical vision and roadmap for the pricing engine with Toast’s expansion strategy.
  • Lead the design and delivery of core capabilities that span multiple engineering teams.
  • Serve as the primary domain expert for complex pricing rules, including discounts, taxes, and service charges.
  • Drive architectural decisions to ensure correctness, performance, and scalability across all order surfaces.
  • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers to grow future technical leaders and raise the engineering bar.
  • Identify and resolve systemic gaps in tooling, testing, and delivery practices to improve team effectiveness.
  • Establish standards for operational excellence, including observability, alerting, and incident response.
  • Partner with Product and leadership to translate ambiguous problems into clear, executable project plans.

What we're looking for

  • 8+ years of back-end experience.
  • Track record of delivering significant products or core capabilities across multiple teams.
  • Deep experience designing and operating distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems, and microservices at scale.
  • Expertise with modern web standards and API technologies including REST and GraphQL.
  • Experience owning business-critical services in production, leading incident response, and driving reliability improvements.
  • Strong experience with relational databases and alternative data stores, including data modeling and migrations at scale.
  • Proven ability to mentor engineers and multiply the effectiveness of a team.
  • Experience with pricing, tax, payments, or other correctness-critical commerce systems (preferred).

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