Senior Software Engineer - Toast Connect
Toast, Inc.Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain scalable backend microservices and RESTful APIs using Java, Kotlin, and AWS infrastructure.
- Lead complex projects spanning multiple teams and systems.
- Build and maintain event infrastructure, platform APIs, and partner and customer integrations.
- Champion automated testing, phased rollouts, high test coverage, and zero-regression releases.
- Monitor service health, analyze logs and metrics, and participate in on-call rotations to maintain platform uptime.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and UX partners on new features and products.
- Provide design feedback, participate in code reviews, and mentor and coach peer engineers.
- Use AI tooling as part of the engineering workflow.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional backend software development experience using Kotlin, Java, or another object-oriented language.
- Hands-on experience building RESTful APIs and fault-tolerant, highly scalable, and secure distributed systems.
- Proficiency with SQL and NoSQL databases and understanding of distributed datastores.
- Familiarity with distributed systems concepts and asynchronous messaging such as Kafka, Pulsar, or AWS SQS/SNS.
- Experience with cloud platforms, especially AWS.
- Strong testing and code-quality practices, communication, problem-solving, collaboration, curiosity, humility, empathy, and respectfulness.
- Experience designing platform APIs used by other teams is a plus.
- Experience with document-based or columnar data stores is a plus.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring two days per week in the office.
- Toast offers competitive compensation and benefits programs supporting healthy lifestyles and changing employee needs.
- Toast provides an accessible and inclusive hiring process with reasonable accommodations available.
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About Toast, Inc.
Bottom Line – Solving business problems and generating positive growth is our jam! We are focused on helping purpose-driven brands make a positive impact with predictable Inbound Growth Programs. As a small business, we get it. Growing pains are genuine for many companies in today’s evolving digital landscape. Standing apart from your competition, connecting with your customers, predictably hitting your goals, and scaling are becoming more challenging as local and global markets expand. But it's not impossible. Digging into the unique challenges your business encounters, we analyze every detail and identify opportunities to grow. Our conversational framework is based on data, mixed with beautiful design, story-telling, and smothered in personality to craft marketing and sales strategies that make it all happen. Do you want to transform your company into a crave-worthy brand that new and existing customers will love and promote? Let's Get Cookin'!