Senior Software Engineer-Backend

Toast has grown to be a leading hospitality software company in the US and is now setting its sights on our next stages of growth. As the business continues to grow, there is increased demand to enhance the enterprise level of support in the product. Toast customers who managed several restaurants a few years ago are now expanding their business and adding new locations. New enterprise customers are looking to leverage Toast technology to support the growth of their business in new ways. These exciting new opportunities will require Toast to bolster our product offerings

Are you bready* for a change?

Toast is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our Fintech Payments team. In this role, you’ll work across the entire Toast platform, including our partner ecosystem.

As a Senior Engineer on the Funds Management team, you will help evolve our platform currently processing over $150B in annual GPV—to meet Toast’s growing global needs. You’ll contribute to building best-in-class, customer-facing FinTech products and developing foundational capabilities that empower partner teams to accelerate product delivery and scale efficiently.

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features across Toast’s enterprise management products
• Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers
• Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast
• Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes
• Roll* features out to customers, including monitoring for success
• Collaborate with UX and PM on the definition and design of features
• Mentor and coach other engineers
  
  

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree preferred
• 5+ years experience building backend services and APIs
• Extensive experience working with an Object Oriented Language like Java or Kotlin, with a deep understanding of testing, quality, and best practices
• Experience shipping production services and balancing getting things done with platform stability and reliability
• Experience building backend services and APIs and scaling distributed systems
• Experience building android applications with kotlin is a plus
• Focused on delivering positive impact for Toast customers
• Enjoys working in a team environment with a shared code-base
• Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics
  
  

Work Mode: This role follows a hybrid work model, requiring a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.

We are hiring individuals with a wide range of experience so if you have more or less than these exact roles, please still apply!

Our Tech Stack

Toast’s products run on a stack that ranges from guest and restaurant-facing Android tablets to backend services in Java to internal, guest-facing and restaurant-facing web apps. Our backend services follow a microservice architecture written using Java 8 and DropWizard; we use AWS extensively, ranging from S3 to RDS to Lambda. We have our own platform for dealing with user management, service elevations and robust load balancing. Toast stores data in a set of sharded Postgres databases and utilizes Apache Spark for large scale data workloads including query and batch processing. The front-end is built primarily using React and ES6. The main Toast POS application is an Android application written in Java and Kotlin. For data between tablets and our cloud platform we operate RabbitMQ clusters as well as direct tablet communication to the back end.

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 embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.

We Thrive Together

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 restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.

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.

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