Senior Software Engineer, Toast
Application Infrastructure
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
1001+ employees
Company mission
Toast's mission is to enrich the food experience for all.
Role
Who you are
- Hands-on experience building and operating complex, mission-critical, large-scale distributed systems in the Cloud
- Expertise in asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, APIs, and integration patterns
- Track record of delivering clean, maintainable, and resilient code that stands the test of time
- Proficiency in Java or Kotlin preferred (experience in other modern programming languages also valued)
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with demonstrated ability to align and inspire cross-functional teams
- A demonstrated record of mentoring junior team members and enhancing the team's effectiveness
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced software engineer to play a critical role in further scaling and developing Toast’s cloud platform and infrastructure
- Toast’s platform processes billions of requests per day from hundreds of internal services and hundreds of thousands of mobile devices; these numbers grow exponentially year over year as we add new restaurants and capabilities to the platform
- Our team is responsible for developing secure, observable, highly available, large-scale shared services and infrastructure
- Architect, design, and deliver ultra-reliable, high-performance services and infrastructure used by millions
- Uncover and resolve performance bottlenecks across infrastructure, databases, and APIs
- Define and enable adherence to engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural guidelines
- Collaborate closely with the Product team to influence features, technical direction, and long-term product vision
- Our team builds and operates on a modern, cloud-native stack with heavy use of AWS, developing services and shared libraries in Kotlin and Go backed by PostgreSQL and DynamoDB
- Infrastructure is provisioned and managed with Terraform
- We oversee Toast’s sharded PostgreSQL databases, own and drive the organization’s use of Apache Pulsar to enable event-driven architecture at scale, and provide developers with tools and services to easily schedule recurring jobs
- Our systems also power customer engagement, integrating with SMS and email providers to reliably deliver millions of messages per day
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 a comprehensive solution for restaurants of any size, saving 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 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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