Senior Software Engineer, Toast

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with strong fundamentals in building, operating, and evolving production systems in a Java / Kotlin environment
• Leverages and explores AI tools as a core part of your workflow to improve speed, quality, learning, and team operations
• Demonstrated success independently owning complex technical initiatives
• Strong judgment designing and operating distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, messaging patterns, and / or microservices in production environments
• Proven ability to balance hands-on execution, pragmatic delivery, and longer-term technical direction
• Skilled at aligning engineering, product, design, and leadership stakeholders around clear tradeoffs and executable plans
• Strong customer orientation: you care about understanding real user workflows, shipping useful product increments, learning from adoption and feedback, and improving the customer experience over time

Desirable

• Financial Management is a growing team within Toast focused on solving one of the biggest challenges in the restaurant industry: managing cash flow
• Restaurants operate on narrow margins with high turnover, making financial stability critical
• By building integrated tools like Cash Flow Insights, Bill Pay, and the upcoming Books product, we empower operators to streamline payments, gain real-time visibility into their finances, and maintain accurate records, all seamlessly within the Toast platform
• Together, these tools form a unified financial suite that simplifies operations, improves accuracy, and gives restaurants the confidence to focus on what they do best: hospitality
• We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build Toast Books and support the continued growth of Cash Flow Insights and Bill Pay
• Toast already powers over 100,000 restaurants as the leading restaurant platform, which uniquely positions us to provide tailored financial services like lending, equipment financing, and banking products designed specifically for restaurants
• As part of our team, you’ll play a critical role in expanding Toast’s financial ecosystem and shaping the next generation of products that help restaurants thrive
• Shape the technical strategy and architecture for Financial Management while staying closely connected to customer problems, product outcomes, and business impact
• Identify and prioritize high-impact customer, business, and technical problems; balance hands-on execution with influence across teams and functions
• Partner deeply with Product, Design, Compliance, Finance, Support, Data, and external vendors to deliver resilient, scalable, and customer-centered financial products
• Lead architectural discussions, make pragmatic tradeoffs, and help sequence the roadmap so teams can ship value incrementally while improving long-term system health
• Mentor engineers and model engineering excellence through high-quality design, code review, testing, observability, documentation, and inclusive technical leadership
• Act as a multiplier by identifying systemic technical, operational, and organizational challenges, then driving improvements that increase developer productivity, reliability, customer impact, and team effectiveness