Principal Engineer, Card Readers Team

About the role

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy.

As a Principal Engineer on the Card Readers team, you will be a technical leader responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our POS payment integrations. You will work closely with hardware SDKs, the core POS application team, and other cross-functional stakeholders to drive technical decisions and define the target architecture for our payment solutions. Your expertise in high-throughput asynchronous JVM solutions, coupled with a deep understanding of mission-critical transactional processing, will be crucial in delivering robust and scalable solutions.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

• Develop and execute technical strategies to solve complex business challenges, leveraging data and customer insights to prioritize impactful improvements.
• Establish guiding technical and delivery principles that influence engineering practices across the broader engineering

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