Staff Backend Software Engineer, Toast
Payments
$168-269k
Point of sale and management system for restaurants
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Point of sale and management system for restaurants
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$168-269k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Toast's mission is to enrich the food experience for all.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience in designing and implementing robust backend services
- Ability to step into a technical leadership role on the team, guiding/coaching/mentor more junior engineers on best practices in architecture, design, coding, testing, deployment, etc
- Proven ability to design and develop scalable and secure APIs that integrate with various internal/external systems
- Applied knowledge of best practices in API lifecycle management, including versioning, documentation, and deprecation strategies, with the ability to share this amongst the team and peers
- Demonstrated experience with microservices architecture and containerization technologies for enhanced scalability and maintainability
Desirable
- Demonstrated proficiency with DynamoDB or PostgreSQL
- Proficiency in Kotlin (or Java and willing to learn Kotlin) and Kotlin-specific frameworks and libraries for building efficient backend solutions
- Experience with modern data architectures (event sourcing, OLAP, ETL/ELT, streaming data)
- Experience designing payments APIs
- Familiarity with PCI-DSS
- Familiarity with AI-augmented development workflows and tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, or similar)
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Payments team to build out our unified payment processing solution
- This platform offers a single, integrated service for payment acceptance across various channels and supports a configurable enterprise approach
- It is designed to allow a build-once, available-to-all strategy for both existing and emerging payment methods
- The successful candidate will guide and contribute to the development of services providing supporting and core functionality within and around this payment processing solution
- Plan, design, build, and deliver features for Toast’s payments products
- Plan, develop, and implement best practices such as automated test suites to ensure the code shipped to our customers meets the highest quality standards
- Roll - pun intended! - features out to customers, including monitoring for success
- Collaborate with our PM (and UX) on the definition and design of features
- Collaborate and partner with a wide array of teams across Toast in order to spread knowledge inter- and intra-team
- Lead and work with experienced engineers to deliver design and code review
Our take
Running a restaurant means managing a stressful set of elements, all needing to work together seamlessly to create a good experience for diners. Toast helps to streamline processes, and puts an end to piles of paperwork, by providing a platform whereby tableside ordering, menu modifications, labour management, payroll, and more are all housed in one system that can run from a tablet.
Toast offers restaurant-grade hardware and cloud-based, customisable payment solutions to serve clients from startup through to growth phase, as well as a service for established restaurants. By combining all the digital services a restaurant might need, the platform can act as the one and comprehensive solution for restaurants of any size, avoiding restaurateurs from having to invest in a range of technologies.
Toast has over 70,000 restaurants on its books, from food trucks to national brands, and its mobile ordering and payment solutions have made it a recognized brand for consumers. The company's IPO in 2021 saw it valued at over $30 billion and since then, it has added more features to its product suite including wholesale and catering order tools. Toast then, has proven its place as an indispensable player in the restaurant space.
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Insights
28% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2020
$400m
SERIES F
Apr 2019
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $899m
Company benefits
- Peer and company recognition programs
- Unlimited Vacation
- Sabbatical opportunity after five years
- Professional Development Reimbursement Program
- Commitment to Employee Wellness through resources such as a quarterly Wellness Stipend
- Various peer and company recognition programs
- 401(k) and matching
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage
- Mental Health Benefits
- Subsidized backup childcare
Company HQ
Fort Point Channel Landmark District, Boston, MA
Leadership
Steve Fredette
(Co-Founder & President)They studied at MIT before co-founding Klick Mobile in 2009 and spending almost 7 years at Endeca. They left their Management role in June 2012 having co-founded Toast in May.
Aman Narang
(Co-Founder & CEO)Having studied Computer Science at MIT, they worked at Endeca for 5 years. They moved from working as Product Manager to work full-time as President of Toast in 2013, having co-founded it the previous year.
Jonathan Grimm
(Co-Founder & CTO)They also studied Computer Science at MIT before working as an Engineer for Endeca for over 4 years. They worked at Oracle for 5 months prior to co-founding Toast in May 2012.
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