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 - and increasingly shaped by AI in both what we build and how we build - restaurants can trust that we’ll deliver on their needs for today while investing in the experiences that will power their restaurant of the future.
Are you bready* for a change?
We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work within our team focused on building Marketing & CRM systems that empower restaurants to drive engagement, retention and growth. The team will help shape the future of how restaurants use technology to connect with their guests - increasingly through AI-powered tools and experiences that drive automation, personalization and smarter decision-making. You will be a key part of a high-impact, high-ownership engineering team solving complex challenges in a fast-moving product space. Your engineering leadership will be balancing technical excellence alongside a strong product mindset to solve for continuous growth within both the team and our product space.
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
- Lead complex projects that deeply connect restaurants with their guests within a cross-functional collaborative and supportive environment.
- Design, build, deploy and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems critical to our customers’ success.
- Collaborate with team members and other engineers across the company
- Monitor feature rollouts to ensure customer success, iterating and improving when necessary.
- Advocate for best coding practices, raising the bar for yourself, your team and the company.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members.
Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)
- Driven by impact and solving for the customer
- Strong experience with Kotlin, Java or another object-oriented language
- Proven track record of delivering reliable services within a distributed architecture to production.
- Ability to break down complex problems and communicate solutions clearly throughout cross-functional teams.
- Values personal and team growth, balancing task completion with platform stability.
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.
- Android app built in Java & Kotlin running in the restaurant.
- PostgreSQL and Dynamodb for persistence.
- Pulsar, Camel and RabbitMQ for message-based integrations.
- And many more technologies that help us build a top class platform.
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.
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 [email protected].
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