Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Toast as a Staff Software Engineer and be part of the Toast Tables team, building a fully integrated waitlist and reservations platform. Collaborate with stakeholders to develop best-in-class solutions ensuring customer delight, ease of use, security, and scalability. Lead complex projects, ship impactful code, and contribute to new product features. Advocate for best coding practices and mentor team members. This role requires extensive experience in Java/Kotlin, modern web technologies, databases, and microservices. The position offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including a hybrid work model.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with Java, Kotlin, or similar object-oriented languages
• Proficient in modern web technologies and UI frameworks (e.g., React, Javascript , TypeScript, REST, GraphQL) with 3+ years of relevant experience
• Experienced with databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB) including schema design and optimization
• In-depth understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and enterprise messaging
• Familiar with asynchronous communication tools (e.g., Pulsar, JMS, Kafka)
• Proven track record of delivering reliable services to production
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders
• A passion for technology and continuous learning
• Enthusiasm for solving impactful challenges and writing clean, scalable code
• A focus on both personal and team growth, balancing task completion with platform stability
• The capacity to tackle complex and ambiguous problems , communicate clearly with others to solve the problem, and share knowledge to help the whole team succeed

Responsibilities

• Be a part of team working collaboratively with UX, PM, QA and other engineers building web applications using modern web technologies
• Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for customers within a collaborative, supportive environment
• Ship code that directly impacts and drives Toast’s growth
• Contribute to new product features from the ground up, ensuring innovation and technical excellence
• Advocate for best coding practices, raising the bar for yourself, your team, and the company
• Partner with experienced engineers in design and code reviews to maintain high standards
• Monitor feature rollouts to ensure customer success, iterating and improving when necessary
• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems critical to our customers’ success
• Tackle scaling challenges and implement robust solutions
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks and optimize for better performance
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to distributed systems is a plus
• Enjoys building well-engineered, usable and accessible systems
• Experience working in a team with Agile/Scrum methodology

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits programs
• Cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions, if eligible)
• Benefits
• Equity (if eligible)
• Hybrid work model