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Senior Software Engineer, Analytics & Search (OLAP Platform)

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2 months ago
Dublin, IrelandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Scale the OLAP platform to support additional domains and consumers while balancing performance and cost.
  • Ingest business events and index them into OpenSearch for analytical data access and search.
  • Expose platform data through a federated GraphQL layer for consumer engineering teams.
  • Design platform APIs and solutions that provide good ergonomics for internal engineering users.
  • Contribute to data pipelines, event-driven architectures, search systems, and REST API design.
  • Collaborate with teams across Toast to support restaurant-critical latency and freshness.

Requirements

  • Strong backend engineering skills in Kotlin, Java, or another object-oriented language, with strong testing and code-quality practices.
  • Experience working with large datasets where correctness, freshness, and query performance are important.
  • Experience with document-based or columnar data stores such as BigTable or DynamoDB.
  • Interest in search engineering, including ranking algorithms, semantic search, or natural language search.
  • Ability to collaborate across team boundaries, understand consumer needs, and deliver clean platform solutions.
  • Ability to use AI tooling as part of the engineering workflow.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role requiring in-office collaboration two days per week in the Dublin office.
  • Competitive compensation and benefits programs, including support for a healthy lifestyle and flexibility to meet changing needs.
  • Accessible and inclusive hiring process with reasonable accommodations available.

Tech Stack

Amazon DynamoDBApache KafkaElasticsearchGraphQLJavaKotlinReactRubyTailwind CSS

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About Toast

5,001-10,000 employees

Toast builds an all-in-one, cloud-based POS and restaurant management platform combining software, Android-based terminals, and integrated payments for restaurants. Revenue comes from SaaS subscriptions, hardware sales, and payment processing, with add-ons such as online ordering, delivery integrations, and payroll. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Boston, it is a public company on the NYSE serving single-location eateries to multi-unit groups across the U.S. and expanding internationally.

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