Design Engineer, New Ventures

Toast · United States · 2 mo ago

RemoteRemoteEngineering$193k–$309k/yrFull-time

About the role

We're looking for a Design Engineer to join our New Ventures team—someone who lives at the intersection of design and code. You'll design, prototype, and ship the experiences that bring Toast's newest products to life, from fuzzy early concept through MVP and iteration. This is a hands-on building role. You think like a designer and build like an engineer, and you're expected to write production-quality front-end code—not just prototypes. Comfort across the full stack is a strong plus.

Own design and front-end engineering for one of Toast's new ventures—from fuzzy early concepts to shippable, high-quality production experiences.
Write clean, maintainable front-end code, owning the quality of the experience end-to-end.
Use AI tools to iterate quickly: generate and compare concepts, accelerate exploration, and bring workflows to life through rapid prototyping and coding in hours, not days.
Create prototypes that feel real—clickable, coded flows and interaction models that help product and engineering make decisions fast, and that get you from 90% to 100%.
Make smart trade-offs under constraints—move fast with MVP patterns, while sweating the details that matter most (hierarchy, states, error handling, accessibility, performance, and clarity).
Run with a bias for action and testing: quickly validate assumptions via low-fi experiments, coded prototypes, usability testing, dogfooding, and iterative refinement.
Operate autonomously: set your own plan, seek input when needed, and keep momentum without waiting for perfect clarity—while collaborating closely with a small team.
Communicate clearly: tell the story of what you're building, why it matters, and what you learned—through working prototypes, artifacts, demos, and written narratives.

Requirements

You're equally comfortable designing and building and you ship real front-end code, not just mockups. Strong front-end engineering skills: you can build production-quality UI, and you care about maintainability, performance, and accessibility. (Fullstack experience is a strong plus.) Amazing at the craft of design: you think in user flows, borrow from analogous problem spaces to invent delightful solutions, and know instinctively where an experience needs to shine versus where scrappy is good enough. Demonstrated ability to move from ambiguity to a strong point of view, then turn that into tangible, coded UI flows quickly with modern tools. Demonstrated strength translating complex workflows and high volumes of inputs/data into interfaces that are simple, scannable, and decision-oriented. Strong product thinking: you can connect user needs, business outcomes, and feasibility into a cohesive experience. You think in systems and can build reusable, maintainable UI components. High comfort working in 0→1 environments where priorities shift, learning is the output, and "done" is an iteration—not a finish line. Ability to work as a team-of-one design engineer: self-directed, organized, and proactive about aligning stakeholders.

Nice to haves

You've worked on early-stage products, internal incubations, or rapid experimentation teams.
You've shipped polished products and have a portfolio (and ideally code) you can point to and say "I designed and built that."
You're comfortable owning backend, APIs, or data work in addition to the front end.
You're excited about AI and want to help define new interaction paradigms for how hospitality businesses run.

Special sauce

You have a clear pattern of using AI tools to accelerate your work—exploration, iteration, prototyping, coding, critique, synthesis, or communication—and you can speak specifically about how you use them to ship better work faster.

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.

Pay

The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills, experience, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible), equity, and benefits.

Zone A $193,000—$309,000 USD
Zone B $168,000—$269,000 USD
Zone C $151,000—$242,000 USD

Schedule

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 hospitality community, regardless of location.

Benefits

Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.

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. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring.

Our Approach to Hybrid Working

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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.

Apply today!

Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.