Design Engineer, New Ventures

Location(s): US (remote), Boston (hybrid), or New York (hybrid)

Toast builds technology that helps food and beverage businesses run smoother, serve customers better, and grow with confidence. Our platform brings together the tools teams need to power daily operations—while turning complexity into clear, actionable insights. We're purpose-built for the pace of hospitality, and we're investing in new experiences that make great businesses easier to run at any scale.

About this role* (responsibilities)

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. Above all, you use AI tools to move fast, explore broadly, prototype convincingly, and continuously test ideas to create amazing user experiences.

We're looking for someone who is amazing at the craft of design and can turn that craft into real, shippable software. You think in terms of user flows, not screens. You draw on analogous problem spaces to find creative, unexpected ways to make an experience delightful. You're exceptionally strong at translating complexity—high volumes of data points, operational constraints, edge cases, and intricate rules—into UIs that feel intuitive and calm. And you take those designs all the way to working, maintainable front-end code.

• 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. We're scrappy and fast—we don't polish every pixel for its own sake—but the experience always needs to feel great, considered, and intentional where it counts.

• 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.

• Design information-dense experiences that are still highly scannable and decision-oriented—prioritizing hierarchy, progressive disclosure, and clear actions.

• 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.

Do you have the right ingredients?* (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