Staff Software Engineer, Toast
$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
- You are respectful, empathetic, and humble
- You have experience presenting complex project plans and helping teams realize them
- You have experience shipping complex mission critical production services
- You have ownership over complex high-scale systems and experience scaling distributed systems
- You have a growth mindset with an emphasis on improving yourself and your functional area
- You are viewed as a leader in your functional area and are trusted to make technical decisions that impact short and long term business objectives
What the job involves
- Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy
- We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Orders Cloud Sync Team
- On the Orders Cloud Sync Team, our mission is to provide a state of the art platform for processing and synchronizing changes to orders that enables Toast to build complex and customizable workflows for our customers
- As a Staff Software Engineer on this team, you’ll play a key role in designing and implementing new features, evolving our architecture and tooling to ensure efficient high-quality delivery, and working with many other Toast R&D teams to bring high-visibility product experiences to life, ensuring that over 1 billion order changes per week across over 150,000 customers are processed quickly and accurately
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems that are critical to our customers’ success
- Lead complex projects that span multiple teams to improve functionality and reliability for our customers
- Design solutions that anticipate and accommodate future needs while considering tradeoffs
- Effectively communicate technical direction, guide our team through execution while driving team quality practices
- Act as a force multiplier in improving engineering productivity
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations
- 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
- Our Tech Stack:
- Our products run on a stack that ranges from guest and restaurant-facing Android tablets, to backend Kotlin and Java services, to internal, guest-facing, and restaurant-facing web apps
- Our backend services follow a microservice architecture written using Kotlin/Java and DropWizard; we use AWS extensively, ranging from DynamoDB to RDS to Lambda
- We have our own platform for dealing with user management, canary deployments, and robust load balancing
- We store data in a set of sharded Postgres databases and utilize Apache Spark for large scale data workloads including query and batch processing
- The web front-end is built using React and ES6
- Our main point of sale application is an Android application written in Java and Kotlin
- For data between tablets and our cloud platform, we rely on Pulsar event driven architecture along with some RabbitMQ clusters as well as direct tablet communication to the back end
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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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