Staff Software Engineer

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 fullstack Staff Software Engineer to join the Toast IQ team to transform how Toast helps its customers run their restaurants.

Toast IQ has landed with our users with much excitement and an appetite for us to deliver more capabilities across the entire Toast ecosystem.  We believe that if we do our job right, restaurants using Toast IQ will spend less hours on operations, make better margins, generate more revenue, and have a better guest and employee experience, compared to other restaurants outside and within the Toast ecosystem.

This role includes responsibility for the experience delivered to our end users, the services backing that experience, and the integrations to other Toast products.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

• Join a collaborative team of Design, Product, QA, and other engineering members in developing robust and scalable full-stack software applications.
• Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers
• Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementation meet requirements
• Drive architectural discussions and influence the technical roadmap
• Advocate for best coding practices to raise the bar for you, your team, and the company
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members
• 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.

What you’ll need to thrive (Requirements)

• 8+ years of full-stack experience in Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented languages, and modern web frameworks such as React.
• Proficient with modern web standards and technologies (e.g. REST, GraphQL)
• Proficient with non-relational data stores (e.g. DynamoDB)
• Experience with applied machine learning or large language models. 
• Experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems, and/or microservices
• Experience delivering high-quality, reliable services to production
• Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics
• Passionate about technology and learning new things

AI at Toast

At Toast, one of our company values is that we’re hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture.

Our Total Rewards Philosophy 
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.

This role is for a current vacancy.

#LI-REMOTE