Senior Director, Software Engineering

About Toast :

Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best : building the businesses they love.

As a Senior Director of FinTech Engineering, you will lead a group of engineering leaders and teams focused on helping restaurants delight their guests and thrive. Your scope will include delivering a seamless and feature-rich payments experience, a suite of capital offerings, and robust foundational FinTech capabilities such as fraud and compliance management, core APIs, and key primitives like payment intentions to support both current and future products.

You will collaborate closely with peers across Toast, shaping product direction through technical insight and contributing to the long-term technical roadmap. You'll partner with product and design counterparts to validate and deliver solutions that address real customer needs. Your leadership will focus on growing high-performing teams, developing their skills, and driving creative ways to improve effectiveness and efficiency. On any given day, you might be reviewing solution designs, aligning cross-functional teams, collaborating on strategic roadmaps, or conducting 1 : 1s with your reports.

About this roll

• (Responsibilities) :
• Drive the delivery of meaningful business outcomes across multiple teams by leading planning, execution, and measurement of impact.
• Partner closely with cross-functional leaders across Product, UX, Engineering, Business, Customer Care, FinTech Operations, Partnerships, Marketing, and TechOps to define valuable, actionable work and ensure end-to-end software delivery, including team ownership of monitoring, continuous improvement, and production issue resolution.
• Champion the adoption of AI tools and practices to accelerate development, enhance team velocity, and pioneer new ways of building, setting the standard for an AI-first engineering organization.
• Continuously incorporate advances in software technology and industry best practices to improve product quality and delivery.
• Shape Toast's broader mission and strategy by aligning technical execution with current and future business needs, energizing teams, and providing clarity for stakeholders.
• Build and grow high-performing, inclusive teams that meet evolving business demands.
• Define and support career development plans, and mentor both new and experienced Engineering Managers and Team Leads in a high-performance environment that fosters growth and development.
• Contribute to building Toast's brand as an innovative, high-tech, high-growth leader in both the Restaurant and FinTech industries.

Do you have the right ingredients

AI at Toast

At Toast we're Hungry to Build and Learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it's a core part of our culture.

Our Spread

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.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.

We Thrive Together

We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out : https : / / careers.toasttab.com / locations-toast.

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Skills Required

Fraud Prevention, fintech , Saas, Payments, Software Technology