Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Toast as a Senior Backend Engineer and contribute to building robust, scalable, and customer-centric eCommerce systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, and maintain key architectural components and integrations. Responsibilities include translating requirements into solutions, reviewing code, ensuring system performance and scalability, and collaborating with UX, PM, QA, and Engineering teams. The ideal candidate possesses at least 5 years of experience in eCommerce infrastructure development, a deep understanding of eCommerce best practices, and proficiency in Java or Kotlin. Competitive compensation and benefits are offered, including a base salary range of $131,000 - $210,000 USD, plus additional cash compensation, equity, and benefits.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in ecommerce infrastructure development, including hands-on experience with enterprise ecommerce platforms
• Deep understanding of ecommerce best practices, usability principles, and information architecture
• Emphasis on back-end code but must be familiar with front-end concepts and development as well
• Experience delivering high quality, reliable services to production using Java or Kotlin
• Strong testing discipline, writing unit and integration tests and believing in automation to maintain software quality
• Experience integrating with third party products and applications, including Salesforce, Netsuite and billing platforms
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases, preferably DynamoDB, Postgres
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Lead by example, at times, working alongside the team in defining requirements, workflows, interaction, user journeys, process/screen flows, and wireframes

Responsibilities

• Translate requirements into solutions, hands-on contributions in designing and building key architectural components and integrations that make up our eCommerce Platform
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to get the job done and provide insights necessary to think beyond the status quo
• Review code to ensure that technical implementation meets functional requirements, as well as our high standards for code quality and testing
• Ensure that our systems are performant, scalable, resilient and highly available
• Collaborate with UX, PM, QA and Engineering to build best-in-class solutions in a complex and fast-moving environment
• Champion best practices for development, deployment and quality life-cycles
• Guide the growth & development of engineers with mentoring and training

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with React or other modern Web UI technologies
• Familiarity with Test Automation frameworks for backend services

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits programs
• Base salary range of $131,000 — $210,000 USD
• Cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible)
• Equity
• Benefits (details available at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits)