Analytics Engineer

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy.

The Analytics Engineer will play an integral role on our Data Infrastructure & Performance (DIP) team. This person will have the chance to expand our Analytics using dbt. This layer aims to make our data easier to use, and insights easier to extract than ever before. The ideal candidate has high standards for their work, and for that of their peers. They should demonstrate a practical expertise in building enterprise solutions at scale, identifying opportunities to improve user experience, and pushing the envelope of data modeling. We are looking for a motivated, energetic candidate with experience creatively solving data complexities of various sizes and levels of cleanliness - with the ultimate goal of enabling analysts, product managers, and peers throughout Toast to make data-informed decisions.

 

A day in the life (Responsibilities) 

• Develop the Analytics layer in our data warehouse using dbt code. This layer of our data warehouse makes our source data more accessible and consistent for our stakeholders, enabling them to get the data they need to make the right decisions.
• Define complex business logic using SQL to help measure success across various departments & teams.
• Collaborate with business partners to understand their data needs, and ensure those needs are met by our dbt models.
• Work closely with both the data engineering team to ensure scalability across the DIP platform.

 

What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

• Experience in Business Intelligence, Analytics, and/or Data Engineering roles.
• Experience developing in dbt. 
• Highly proficient in SQL. You can interpret and optimize queries for performance, written by other analysts and engineers.
• Thrive in a fast-paced work environment and comfortable operating under ambiguity. You are up to the challenge of designing standards and best practices from the ground up and love collaborating with colleagues to solve complex problems.
• Bachelor's degree in an advanced quantitative field (or equivalent experience); such as mathematics, economics/finance, computer science, or physical science.

 

Special Sauce* (Nonessential Skills/Nice to Haves): 

• Experience with Airflow
• Experience with Hex, Sigma and/or other BI dashboard tools
• Experience in cloud-based data warehouses, specifically Snowflake.
• Experience with Python is a plus

 

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.

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

Pay Range$92,000—$147,000 USD

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.

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 embedd