Engineering Manager II

Toast is driven by building the all-in-one restaurant platform that helps restaurants operate their business, increase sales, engage guests, and keep employees happy. Toast helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best : building the businesses they love. Toast connects employees, operations, and guests on a reliable, easy-to-use platform so restaurateurs can stay one step ahead of a rapidly evolving hospitality market. Are you bready* for a change? We are hiring for the ‘Enterprise Payments’ team, which sits at the centre of Toast's global Enterprise growth strategy. We design, build, and scale the Fintech infrastructure that powers seamless commerce for Enterprise customers across the globe. Toast is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Enterprise Payments team. You will manage and develop a high-performing engineering team focused on delivering strategic capabilities for our enterprise customers and driving meaningful business impact. Leading with a global-first mindset, you will oversee the design and delivery of resilient, scalable payment systems that power enterprise growth across international markets. About this roll* (Responsibilities) • Roadmap Execution : Partner with stakeholders to define, prioritise, and execute the Enterprise Payments team's roadmap and operational objectives, translating business priorities into measurable outcomes. • Team Leadership: Support the professional and technical development of team members through coaching, mentorship, and career guidance, helping engineers grow as both technical contributors and leaders. • Delivery: Establish accountability for execution and outcomes, ensuring the team delivers value with speed, quality, and reliability. • Culture : Serve as a steward of an exceptional culture, encompassing both technical excellence and people‑centric values. • Scale : Guide teams to build systems that will scale to the next order of magnitude of growth. • Collaboration : Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization - including PMs, SEs, CS, QA, and UX - to help your teams get stuff done and deliver solutions that maximize value. • Operational Excellence : Build and scale a customer-first operational support model that delivers timely issue triage, effective problem resolution, and exceptional service reliability for enterprise customers, while driving continuous improvements in operational efficiency and customer outcomes. • Hiring : Hire and develop new team members, building a diverse team that wins together. Do you have the right ingredients? (Experience) • Strong technologist with 12+ years of experience defining, architecting, and delivering highly scalable engineering solutions. • 4+ years of experience managing, coaching, and developing high-performing engineering teams. • Deep experience in the Fintech/Payments domains. • A passion for building diverse, high-performing teams that collaborate effectively, win together, and place customer success at the centre of every decision. • A bias for action and a pragmatic mindset, with the ability to balance execution velocity, technical excellence, and business outcomes. • Experience shipping iterative value using agile or lean software delivery methods. • Have strong understanding & hands-on experience of building fault-tolerant, highly-scalable & secure distributed systems. • Proficiency with sql/nosql databases, strong understanding of distributed datastores and knowledge of when to use what. • Proficiency in SDLC best practices and experience ensuring data integrity, quality, and consistency. • A strong sense of empathy for customers and a desire to prioritize customer success. • Strong interpersonal skills and a proven track record of building partnerships across engineering, product, customer success, and other stakeholders. • You demonstrate humility, empathy and respectfulness. What we use to make our dish (Our Tech Stack) • Backend services which follow a microservice architecture written using Kotlin, Java and DropWizard. • Android apps built using Kotlin & Java. • Event driven messaging & streaming using Apache Pulsar & RabbitMQ. • Apache Camel for implementing Enterprise Integration Pattern. • React & ES6 based Frontend SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook. • DynamoDb & Postgres as core persistence data-storage layers. • Datadog & Sentry for system and application metric and monitoring. • Splunk for log aggregation. • FireHydrant for alerting. AI at Toast At Toast, one of our company values is that 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 Total Rewards Philosophy 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. How Toast Uses AI in its Hiring Process Throughout the hiring process, our goal is to get to know you. We use AI tools to support our recruiters and interviewers with tasks like note-taking, summarization, and documentation of interviews to ensure they can be fully focused on your conversation. All hiring decisions are made by people. We ask that you complete interviews and assessments on your own, without real-time AI tools, recording, or transcription bots, unless we tell you otherwise in advance. To learn mo