Senior Software Engineer - Payments Team

19 Hours ago • All levels • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

Toast is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their Payments Pricing team to help scale their platform. The role involves owning key components of the payment processing system, designing, building, and maintaining highly resilient and scalable systems. Responsibilities include identifying and solving scaling issues, diagnosing performance bottlenecks, optimizing systems, and investigating payment processing issues to enhance customer experience. The engineer will also analyze data and understand trends. The system utilizes Kotlin/Java Dropwizard services deployed to AWS and interacts with payment hardware and partner APIs.
Must have:
  • Advanced understanding of distributed event-driven systems
  • Tenured experience in Kotlin, Java, or OOP languages
  • Strong experience in SQL and database schema design
  • Passionate about writing quality code and delivering scalable solutions
  • Respectful, empathetic, and humble
  • Growth mindset with a focus on self and team improvement
  • Balances delivery with platform stability
Perks:
  • Competitive compensation and benefits programs
  • Healthy lifestyle support with flexible options

Job Details

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.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Payments Pricing team as we scale our platform to meet our customer’s future needs with innovative products and flexible pricing options. As an integrated payment processor, Toast processes millions of dollars daily, and ensures that money moves accurately and promptly to a restaurant’s bank account.

Our system is a set of Kotlin/Java Dropwizard services deployed to AWS, interacting with hundreds of thousands of Android tablets using modern payment hardware, as well as with partners through our API.

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

  • Have full ownership of a key component in our payment processing system
  • Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems that are critical to our customers’ success
  • Identify any scaling issues, and implement solutions
  • Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations
  • Investigate and solve payment processing issues to improve the customer experience
  • Analyze data and understand the trends   

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

  • Advanced understanding of distributed event driven systems
  • Tenured experience in Kotlin, Java or other object oriented language(s)
  • Passionate about writing awesome code and delivering impactful scalable solutions
  • Strong experience in SQL and expertise in database schema design
  • You are respectful, empathetic, and humble
  • You have a growth mindset with an emphasis on improving yourself and your team
  • You balance getting things done with platform stability.

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

Our Spread* of Total Rewards
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.

*Bread puns encouraged but not required



 

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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