Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead - Enterprise

Toast has grown to be a leading hospitality software company in the US and is now setting its sights on our next stages of growth.  As the business continues to grow, there is increased demand to enhance the enterprise level of support in the product. Toast customers who managed several restaurants a few years ago are now expanding their business and adding new locations. New enterprise customers are looking to leverage Toast technology to support the growth of their business in new ways. These exciting new opportunities will require Toast to bolster our product offerings.

Toast is looking for a Staff Software engineer to join our enterprise quick service restaurant team. You will get to work across the entire Toast platform, including our POS, backend, and front end systems. 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.

• →Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features across Toast’s enterprise management products. Hands-on design and implementation experience in Java or Kotlin.
• →Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers
• →Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast
• →Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes
• →Roll* features out to customers, including monitoring for success
• →Collaborate with UX and PM on the definition and design of features  
• →Mentor and coach other engineers

• 8+ 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
• Experience building front end applications 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 

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.

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.

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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