Staff Software Engineer (Tech Lead Manager)

1 Month ago • 9-13 Years • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

Toast is seeking a Staff Software Engineer (Tech Lead Manager) for its Payments team in Bangalore. This role involves building end-to-end third-party processors for millions of transactions. The position requires a blend of individual contribution (60%) and managerial responsibilities (40%), including managing a team of up to four engineers. Key responsibilities include designing, building, deploying, and maintaining resilient and scalable features, leading complex projects, collaborating with various teams, ensuring quality through automated testing, rolling out features, and mentoring engineers. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in backend services and APIs, with a strong understanding of object-oriented languages like Java or Kotlin, and a focus on quality and best practices.
Must have:
  • Minimum of three year undergraduate degree
  • 9-13 years experience building backend services and APIs
  • Experience leading small teams (1-2)
  • Extensive experience with Java or Kotlin
  • Experience shipping production services
  • Excellent cross-team communication
Good to have:
  • Experience building Android applications with Kotlin

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. 

Are you bready* for a change?

Toast is looking for a Staff Software engineer(Tech Lead Manager)  to join our Payments team in Bangalore. This team  will be responsible for building end to end 3rd party processors responsible for managing millions of transactions for our customers. It will be a mix role with 60% IC and 40 %  managerial responsibilities with managing a team of size not more than 4.

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

  • Manage the high performing  team of size not more than 4.
  • Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features
  • Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers and partners
  • Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast 
  • Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes
  • Roll* features out to customers and partners, 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)

  • A minimum of three year undergraduate degree in any related discipline
  • 9-13 years experience building backend services and APIs
  • Experience of leading and managing small team of 1 or 2 in the past
  • 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 

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

Working Mode: Hybrid (Minimum two days at office a week)

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.

*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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