About this role
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 looking for a Software Engineer II to join our Identity Management team to play a critical role in developing reliable code and algorithms in our user management, permission, and web services. We are looking for an engineer who has the ability and drive to make an impact, not only on their own but by also enabling those around them to succeed.
Partnering with stakeholders, product managers, product designers, product data analysts, and other engineers, you will be part of a team responsible for ensuring that our practices in the development of our platform are safe and secure. You will also be responsible for developing and maintaining core services and repositories in Toast, including integrations, managing users, authentication, and permissions. The Toast platform processes tens of millions of requests per day, and this number grows constantly as we add new restaurants and integration partners to our system. The services we develop on this team are essential for Toast’s operation and their resilience and reliability are crucial from a business and user perspective.
If you want to help create something tangible that is used every day, help small businesses achieve their vision, and take on the challenge of scaling a SaaS product from millions of users to hundreds of millions of users, Toast is the place for you.
A day in the life (Responsibilities)
• Be part of a team working collaboratively with UX, PM, QA and other engineers designing, building and maintaining high performance, flexible and highly scalable microservices, as well as development of web and mobile applications
• Championing best practices such as quality integration, unit testing, end-to-end testing, and performance testing
• Tackle scaling challenges and implement robust solutions.
• Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementations meet requirements
• 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.
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks and optimize for better performance.
• Ensure that all work done is delivered with quality and is appropriately monitored and supported in production
What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)
• Proficient in Java, Kotlin or another object-oriented language, with a deep understanding of testing, quality & best practices.
• 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 tech