Senior Software Engineer

Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love. Because our technology is purpose-built for restaurants, by restaurant people, restaurants can trust that we’ll deliver on their needs for today while investing in experiences that will power their restaurant of the future.

Are you bready* for a change?

As a Senior Software Engineer on Toast's 3rd Party Ordering team, you will build seamless integrations that connect tens of thousands of restaurants with popular delivery platforms and ordering services. You will design and build new, high-volume integrations that drive meaningful revenue for our restaurants. You bring deep technical understanding of distributed systems and integration patterns, with the experience to guide architectural decisions that ensure reliability at scale. You are product-minded, building strong partnerships with PM and UX to optimize the ordering experience for both restaurant operators and their customers, while collaborating effectively with platform partners and internal Toast teams.

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

• Work collaboratively with UX, PM, QA and other engineers building web applications using modern technologies
• Drive best practices and help choose technologies to evolve our current tech stack while writing world-class applications
• Champion best practices such as quality integration and unit testing
• Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementations meet requirements
• Mentor other team members
• Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team.

**Do you have the right ingredients*

?** (Requirements)

• Passionate about building great software
• Driven by impact and solving for the customer
• Proficient in all aspects of backend development
• Experience with Java, Kotlin, or similar object-oriented languages
• Proficient in software development best practices, including observability and testing
• Experience delivering high-quality, reliable services to production at scale
• Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics
• Familiar with traditional databases and alternative data stores

* This is a hybrid role requiring in-office presence two days per week *

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

• A core of Java & Kotlin based backend services.
• React SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook.
• PostgreSQL and DynamoDB as core persistence.
• Pulsar, Camel and RabbitMQ for message-based integrations.
• And many more technologies that help us build a top class platform.

*We love a great bread/food pun

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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.

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.