Staff Software Engineer, Backend

About the job

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy. Toast is building the platform that helps operators adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: running the businesses they love. We've grown into a leading hospitality software company in the U.S., and we're now entering our next phase of growth, one defined by scale, complexity, and a new class of enterprise customers.

Are you bready* for a change?

Toast is looking for a Staff Software Engineer (Backend) to join our Partner Connect team in Bangalore, which owns how everything outside Toast connects to Toast. That includes the event infrastructure every team at Toast uses to publish data, the frameworks partners and customers use to integrate through our APIs, and a new charter to make Toast the source of truth for all the data about the customers we serve.

You will play a role in evolving our architecture to support ever more complex new features and best-in-class monitoring as we scale to orders of magnitude of our current size!

If you want to help create something tangible that is used every day, help businesses achieve their vision, and take on the challenge of scaling a SaaS product, Toast is the place for you.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

- Be a part of team working collaboratively with UX, PM, QA and other engineers building web applications using modern web technologies

- Design the systems that make app development automated, self-serve, and fast, including sandbox provisioning and a clean path to production.

- Define best practices and help choose technologies to evolve our current tech stack while writing world-class applications

- Championing best practices such as quality integration and unit testing

- Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementations meet requirements

- Ensure that all work done by the team is delivered with quality and is appropriately monitored and supported in production

- Raise the technical bar through architecture, design review, and code review, and mentor engineers across levels as the team grows.

- Use AI tools in your own workflow and help establish how the team uses them well, including how to critically evaluate what they produce.

What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)

- 10+ years of experience building backend systems and APIs

- Proficient in Java, Kotlin or other object oriented languages

- Experience designing platform APIs that other teams depend on - platform thinking, not just feature delivery

- In-depth understanding of AWS, microservices, distributed systems, and enterprise messaging.

- The ability to break down a problem, understand what the consuming team actually needs, and ship a clean solution. Our users are other engineers, and the ergonomics of the platform matter

- Proficient with traditional databases. Comfort with document-based or columnar data stores a plus

- Prior experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems or microservices

Our Tech Stack

- A core of Java & Kotlin based backend services.

- React SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook.

- OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, Dynamodb as core persistence.

- Pulsar & Camel for message-based integrations.

- And many more technologies that help us build a top class platform.

For Engineering ICs: Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team.

AI at Toast

At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture.

Our Total Rewards Philosophy 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 . 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. We ask that you complete interviews and assessments on your own, without real-time AI tools, recording, or transcription bots, unless we tell you otherwise in advance. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring

Our Approach to Hybrid Working

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 hospitality community, regardless of location. Please visit the Locations page on our career site to learn more about our in-office expectations by region: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast

People Are the Secret Ingredient in Our Recipe for Success

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry brings together people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we value that same breadth at Toast. We strive to build a culture grounded in authenticity, respect, and humility, where every Toaster has a real opportunity to grow, contribute, and do their best work—raising the bar in delivering exceptional experiences for our customers and each other.

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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