Senior Software Engineer, Toast
Orders Pricing
$125-254k
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
$125-254k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Toast's mission is to enrich the food experience for all.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of back-end experience in Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented languages
- Track record of driving significant projects from design through rollout
- Proficient with modern web standards and API technologies (e.g. REST, GraphQL), including schema design, evolution, and versioning
- Experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems, and/or microservices
- Experience operating services in production — monitoring, alerting, observability, and incident response
- Proficient with relational databases and alternative data stores
- Proficient with AI tooling such as Cursor, Claude, and MCP servers
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills
- Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics
- Passionate about technology and learning new things
What the job involves
- Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Orders Pricing team
- Orders Pricing team owns how every order is priced — the rules, discounts, taxes, and service charges that determine what a guest pays. Our pricing engine has to be exactly right, every time, across an immense scale of traffic and every surface an order touches, from the cloud to the point of sale
- The pricing engine is a critical part of the company strategy as we expand into new verticals, encountering new complexities and pricing rules
- Correctness at Scale: Pricing has to be exactly right on every order, every time. Getting it wrong costs restaurants and guests real money — accuracy is non-negotiable
- Hard Problems: Discounts, taxes, and service charges stack into complex rules — we turn that complexity into a fast, reliable engine
- Leadership and Ownership: You’ll drive significant projects end-to-end and help grow the engineers around you
- Drive significant projects from design through rollout, owning the technical direction and delivery
- Design and implement pricing features that improve accuracy and reliability for our customers and partners
- Mentor less experienced engineers and raise the technical bar across the team
- Participate in architectural discussions and help evolve the pricing engine’s design, tooling, and delivery practices
- Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementations meet requirements
- Own operational monitoring — observability, alerting, and on-call response — and keep pricing highly available in production
- Collaborate with Product, QA, and other engineering teams to deliver robust, scalable services
- 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 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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