This role pays more than
83%
of similar roles. Most pay
$189,300–$238,250
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$251k
versus about
$214k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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
$190,000–$304,000
across 29 roles with salary data.
As a Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead on the Config Platform team, you will join a high-concurrency engine responsible for critical infrastructure and live system updates across the entire ecosystem. You will design, build, and maintain highly resilient systems while leading complex projects that span multiple teams to improve functionality and reliability. Your daily work involves diagnosing performance bottlenecks, improving engineering productivity, and managing distributed architecture to ensure consistent real-time configuration changes. The technical stack includes Kotlin, Java, DropWizard, and React with ES6 for front-end development. You will work extensively with AWS services like DynamoDB, RDS, and Lambda, while utilizing Apache Spark for large-scale data processing. Additionally, the role involves managing Pulsar event-driven architecture, RabbitMQ clusters, and sharded Postgres databases to solve complex configuration management problems for a global customer base.