Design Engineer (New Ventures)

Join Toast's New Ventures team as a Design Engineer, where you'll design, prototype, and ship experiences for our newest products. This hands-on role requires a strong background in both design and front-end engineering, with a focus on creating intuitive and engaging user experiences. You'll work autonomously, communicate clearly, and use AI tools to iterate quickly. Benefits include unlimited vacation, professional development reimbursement, and comprehensive health coverage.

• Concevoir, prototyper et expédier des expériences qui donnent vie aux nouveaux produits de Toast, de la conception initiale au MVP.
• Écrire du code front-end de qualité de production, en possédant la qualité de l'expérience de bout en bout.
• Utiliser des outils d'IA pour itérer rapidement : générer et comparer des concepts, accélérer l'exploration et donner vie aux flux de travail.
• Strong product thinking: you can connect user needs, business outcomes, and feasibility into a cohesive experience
• Demonstrated strength translating complex workflows and high volumes of inputs/data into interfaces that are simple, scannable, and decision-oriented
• Ability to work as a team-of-one design engineer: self-directed, organized, and proactive about aligning stakeholders
• 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.)
• You're equally comfortable designing and building and you ship real front-end code, not just mockups
• 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
• 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
• Demonstrated ability to move from ambiguity to a strong point of view, then turn that into tangible, coded UI flows quickly with modern tools
• 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
• 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."
• Fullstack range—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
• Background in design or formal design training, alongside your engineering chops