Software Engineering Intern, Toast
Point of sale and management system for restaurants
Job no longer available
Point of sale and management system for restaurants
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
Toast's mission is to enrich the food experience for all.
Role
Who you are
- Toast is looking for self-motivated individuals who love building great software and want to have fun while doing it
- Currently enrolled in an academic program and available for full-time internship January - June 2026
- A passion for learning and a desire to understand what it takes to build software that empowers restaurants to thrive and do what they love
- Knowledge of at least one of the following:
- Java development
- Mobile software development (preferably with Android)
- SQL or NoSQL databases
- RESTful microservices
- Web front-end basics: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Machine Learning and/or Generative AI development
What the job involves
- Our engineering teams offer opportunities to work on a variety of impactful areas, including Android and iOS development, web front-end, back-end infrastructure, AI/machine learning models, cybersecurity and compliance, and more
- You could contribute to designing user-friendly interfaces, building secure and scalable systems in AWS using Java or Kotlin, applying machine learning for security and analytics, or creating tools for large-scale data processing
- You’ll collaborate with talented mentors and engineers, gain hands-on experience with technologies like Python, TensorFlow, Splunk, and big data tools, and help empower restaurants through innovative technology
- Whether you’re passionate about front-end design, advanced AI models, or cloud security, Toast has a role for you
- This role is planned to run from January - June 2026
- Work on a small team of 3-6 engineers, responsible for entire modules of the Toast product
- Build, and maintain high performance, flexible, and highly scalable web and mobile applications
- Participate in designing, estimating effort, implementing, testing, debugging, configuring, integrating and documenting database, middle-tier and front-end code
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations
- Think in terms of the end-user and design accordingly
- Actively contribute to product design and feature selection discussions
- Participate in code reviews to ensure technical implementations meet functional requirements
- Build cutting edge tools for analytical data processing, explore the power of Toast data and build machine learning models
- Implement secure software development processes
- Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team
- Toast’s products run on a stack that ranges from guest and restaurant-facing Android tablets to web applications and backend microservices
- The Toast POS application is an Android application written in Java and Kotlin
- Our backend microservice architecture consists of containerized RESTful and gRPC applications written in Java and Kotlin
- Ystems integrations are built on Apache Camel and we use Apache Pulsar for message oriented middleware
- Front end applications use React and leverage GraphQL for data access
- Mobile applications are native for both Android and iOS. Toast’s platform services are built and deployed on AWS, and consume several AWS services such as ECS, DynamoDB, Aurora (Postgres), S3 and others
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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