Staff Software Engineer, Toast

• We are looking for an engineer with previous experience in this space, who has the ability and drive to lead and make an impact, not only on their own but by also enabling those around them to succeed
• Minimum 8-10 years experience as a software engineer
• Previous experience with the Authentication or Authorisation domains
• Experience delivering high quality, reliable services to production using Java, Kotlin or other object oriented language(s)
• Experience of Javascript and modern web standards and technologies (e.g. HTML5, React, GraphQL)
• Proficient in Software Development best practices (Code Quality, UnitTest, BDD)
• Experience supporting and debugging a large multi threaded application
• Enjoys and is passionate about building well-engineered, usable and accessible systems
• Exposure to distributed systems, scaling challenges, SaaS, SQL, JS, & Pulsar are a plus
• Not required, but previous experience leading a team in the Agile/Scrum methodology or experience with Android/mobile development would also be a plus

• Toast is looking for a highly-motivated and organised back-end Staff Engineer to join our Identity & Access Management team in the Cloud Services & Infrastructure organization to play a critical role in developing reliable code and algorithms in our user management, permission, and web services
• 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
• 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 for user management, permission, and web services, as well as development of associated web and mobile applications
• Define best practices and help choose technologies to evolve our current tech. stack while writing world-class applications
• Champion best practices such as quality integration and unit testing
• Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementations meet requirements
• Ensure that all work done is delivered with quality and is appropriately monitored and supported in production
• Mentoring other team members
• What we use to make our dish (Our Tech Stack):
• A core of Java & Kotlin based backend services
• React SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook
• PostgresQL and Dynamodb as core persistence
• Pulsar, Camel and RabbitMQ for message-based integrations
• And many more technologies that help us build a top class platform

• 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

Total funding: $899m

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.