Staff 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. 

Are you bready* for a change?

Toast is looking for a Staff Software engineer to join our enterprise Away team. You will get to work across the entire Toast platform, including the partner ecosystem. As a member of the enterprise team, you will help ensure that the product is being built to meet the new and expanding needs of these customers.

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

• 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)

• 9-13 years experience building backend services and APIs
• 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!

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