Hi Hiring Manager,

I am applying for the Manager II, Software Engineering role.

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Toast helps restaurants thrive, and I want to help the Hotels team deliver on that promise.

I am Eliecer Vera, an engineering manager with nine years of hands-on development and a track record of growing teams that ship.

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Why Toast

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Mission that matters

Technology that empowers real businesses run by real people.

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Mission that matters

Toast exists to help restaurants succeed. That means the software I would lead my team to build has a direct impact on small business owners, their staff, and every guest who walks through the door. I have spent my career in SaaS, and the most rewarding work has always been when the end user is someone whose livelihood depends on the product working well.

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Hospitality runs in my work

I already build software for the events and travel industry.

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Hospitality runs in my work

I am an Engineering Manager at Swoogo, an event management SaaS platform. I build software that helps people plan conferences, trade shows, and corporate events every day. Travel and hospitality are industries I genuinely care about, not just a job description I am reading for the first time. Leading a Hotels team at Toast would be a natural extension of the work I already love doing.

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Built for this role.

Here is how my experience maps directly to what you are looking for in a Manager II.

Manager II, Software Engineering

Engineering leadership with the technical chops to back it up.

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What I bring

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Full-Stack Depth

9+ years. PHP/Laravel, React/TypeScript, GraphQL, Node.js, AWS. I work across the entire stack without needing hand-holding on either side.

Leadership Trajectory

IC to Tech Lead to Engineering Manager in under 3 years at Swoogo. Still code 30% of my time. I lead by building, not just delegating.

SaaS DNA

Every role at a SaaS company: Swoogo, Skillshare, eMindful. I understand subscription metrics, enterprise shipping cadence, and how to keep paying customers happy.

Speed to Ship

Built a rideshare platform from scratch as CTO. Delivered customer-requested features same-sprint at Swoogo. Built this site to apply. Action over planning, always.

AI is my daily toolkit, not a buzzword

At Swoogo, I am driving AI automation and orchestration initiatives as Engineering Manager. I design strategies to systematize operations using LLMs. This is not a side interest. It is core to how I work.

I use Claude Code every day. This site was built with it. I also work with prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, and AI agents in production contexts.

I may not have Toast's exact stack today. That does not slow me down. With 9+ years of picking up new frameworks on the job and AI tools that compress weeks of learning into days, I ramp up fast. I shipped production code in Yii2 with zero prior experience within my first month at Swoogo.

For Manager II, that means helping my team adopt AI practices that accelerate development velocity. It means faster code reviews, smarter architecture decisions, and more time for the high-judgment work that only humans can do. I am not learning these tools. I am already fluent.

Let's talk.

I would love to have a conversation about how the Hotels team is taking shape and where my experience building and leading SaaS engineering teams can help Toast expand into this new vertical.

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P.S. Based in Orlando, FL. Fully set up for remote work. Available to start in 2 weeks.