Senior Software Engineer

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?

We are hiring for the ‘International Payments’ team, that helps lead Toast in its journey for global expansion to different geographies & markets. This team helps fuel Toast’s expansion by developing & supporting a strong payments foundation.

As a Senior-Software-Engineer on this team, you would get to build, innovate and upscale the next generation of our software solutions, with a Global first mindset, working closely with UX/PM/QA and customers to deliver the most value that fits our customers market and culture.

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.
• Mentor & coach your peer engineers.

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• 5+ years experience building backend services and RESTFUL APIs.
• Proficiency in Object Oriented Programming Languages such as Java, Kotlin etc.
• Have strong understanding & hands-on experience of building fault-tolerant, highly-scalable & secure distributed systems.
• Proficiency with sql/nosql databases, strong understanding of distributed datastores and knowledge of when to use what.
• Strong foundations in data structures & algorithms.
• Passion for building great software products.
• You demonstrate humility, empathy and respectfulness.
• Deep understanding of testing, quality, and proficiency in SDLC best practices.
• Proficiency in testing applications & delivering high-quality, reliable apps to production.
• Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics.
• Experience working with Cloud Infrastructure (AWS or similar).

Special Sauce* (Nice to Haves)

• Have knowledge and hands-on experience of building Android applications.

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

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

• Android apps built using Kotlin & Java.
• Backend services which follow a microservice architecture written using Kotlin, Java and DropWizard
• 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.
• Fire-Hydrant for alerting.

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.

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. We ask that you complete interviews and assessments on your own, without real-time AI tools, recording, or transcription bots, unless we tell you otherwise in advance. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring

Our Approach to Hybrid Working

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 hospitality community, regardless of location. Please visit the Locations page on our career site to learn more about our in-office expectations by region: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast

People Are the Secret Ingredient in Our Recipe for Success

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry brings together people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we value that same breadth at Toast. We strive to build a culture grounded in authenticity, respect, and humility, where every Toaster has a real opportunity to grow, contribute, and do their best work—raising the bar in delivering exceptional experiences for our customers and each other.

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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