Senior Software Engineer - Fintech

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.
Payment processing is a key source of Toast’s revenue and also the lifeblood of our customers’ business: we process multiple millions of dollars in transactions every day.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team as we scale our systems to meet future demands.
Payment Procesing team is responsible for processing credit card payments on behalf of our restaurants. Our system is a set of Java/Kotlin Dropwizard services deployed to AWS, interacting with thousands of Android tablets using modern payment hardware, as well as with partners through our API.

About this roll*: As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will:

• 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
• Learn from our scaling problems, and implement solutions to those problems
• 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*? 

• Good understanding of distributed event driven systems
• Experience in Java, Kotlin or other object oriented language(s)
• Proficiency in SQL and expertise in database schema design
• Passionate about writing awesome code and delivering impactful scalable solutions
• 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.

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

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