Staff Software Engineer - Enterprise Payments

Toast is driven by building the all-in-one restaurant platform that helps restaurants operate their business, increase sales, engage guests, and keep employees happy. Toast connects employees, operations, and guests on a reliable, easy-to-use platform so restaurateurs can stay one step ahead of a rapidly evolving hospitality market.

Are you bready* to make a change?

We have built the Enterprise Payments team from the ground up to help lead Toast’s journey of expanding into Enterprise customers (such as Marriott) on a global scale. This team fuels Toast’s growth by developing and supporting a strong payments foundation.

As a Staff Software Engineer on this team, you will have the opportunity to build, innovate, and scale the next generation of our software solutions with a global-first mindset. You’ll work closely with PMs, SEs, QA, UX, and customers to deliver solutions that maximize value while aligning with diverse markets and ecosystems.

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features across Toast’s Enterprise line-of-products.
• Lead complex projects that may span multiple teams & systems.
• Collaborate with PM, UX & QA, and other engineers, on the development of new features & products.
• Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast.
• Drive high-quality team output and ensure that the team makes solid technical decisions.
• Collaborate with peer engineers, provide design feedback, and participate in code reviews.
• Champion best practices for SDLC & CICD life-cycles.
• Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes.
• Roll* features out to customers, ensuring successful delivery and operation, including monitoring for success and/or failures.
• Lead, mentor, and coach engineers on industry-standard development best practices.
  
  

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• 9+ years of hands-on experience delivering high-quality, reliable & scalable services and software systems using contemporary object-oriented languages.
• Familiar with traditional databases and alternative data stores, with a strong understanding of distributed datastores and knowledge of when to use what.
• Have strong understanding of fault-tolerant, highly-scalable & secure distributed systems.
• Awareness of MVVM architecture style & Reactive Programming.
• Passionate about building great software products.
• You demonstrate humility, empathy and respectfulness.
• Proficiency in SDLC best practices.
• Proficiency in testing android applications & delivering high-quality, reliable apps to production.
• Ensure data integrity, quality, and consistency.
• Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics.
• Experience working with Cloud Infrastructure (AWS or similar).
  
  

Special Sauce* (Nice to Haves)

• Awareness of Android development frameworks (in Kotlin or Java).
  
  

What we use to make our dish: (Our Tech Stack)

• Backend services which follow a microservice architecture written using Kotlin, Java and DropWizard
• Android apps built using Kotlin & Java.
• Event driven messaging & streaming using Apache Pulsar & RabbitMQ.
• Apache Camel for implementing Enterprise Integration Pattern.
• React & ES6 based Frontend SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook.
• DynamoDb & Postgres as core persistence data-storage layers.
• Datadog & Sentry for system and application metric and monitoring.
• Splunk for log aggregation.
• FireHydrant for alerting.
  
  

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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