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.
Engineers at Toast build the mission-critical foundation that powers thousands of restaurants and local businesses every single day. From real-time order processing and resilient payment infrastructure to automated intelligent workflows, our technology solves high-stakes, real-world problems at scale. We value high technical standards, hands-on execution, collaborative problem-solving, and building systems that directly impact our customers' success.
• International: Scaling Toast’s core platform globally. You'll tackle localization, multi-currency architectures, international payment integrations, and regional compliance as we expand into new markets around the world.
• Retail: Building the next generation of omnichannel commerce tools for retail merchants. You'll architect solutions that unify inventory, point-of-sale systems, and real-time transaction processing for businesses with physical and digital storefronts.
• Enterprise: Architecting high-throughput, mission-critical systems designed for multi-location, enterprise-scale brands. You'll focus on system reliability, massive data scale, custom menu and pricing engine configurations, and complex multi-entity management.
[We are hiring across multiple teams and levels. Your specific team, title, & level will be evaluated and determined during the interview process based on scope, technical depth, and experience.]
A Day in the Life (Responsibilities)
• End-to-End Product Execution: Design, build, and ship complete features across the stack—from resilient backend services and APIs to intuitive, responsive web interfaces.
• Architect & Build: Create highly reliable, scalable systems using Java, Kotlin, and modern frontend frameworks (React, TypeScript) critical to Toast's core platform.
• 0-to-1 & Scaled Execution: Drive net-new product development and tackle complex scaling challenges to keep our platforms fast, decoupled, and seamless for users.
• Technical Leadership & Quality: Turn ambiguous business goals into high-quality, production-ready code. Advocate for engineering best practices, robust testing, and deep system observability across the entire tech stack.
• Engineering Excellence: Elevate code quality across teams and mentor engineers to help raise the overall technical bar.
What You'll Need to Thrive (Requirements)
• 5+ years of software engineering experience building production-grade web applications and distributed systems.
• Strong proficiency with Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented languages.
• Hands-on experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, TypeScript) and a strong understanding of web architecture and UI state management.
• Experience with modern API design (REST, GraphQL) and relational databases or alternative data stores (e.g., Postg