Staff Software Engineer - Scheduling & Platform Lead

StartupPlay; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Toast is seeking a senior backend/full-stack engineer to help build scheduling features that broaden Toast's footprint and deepen restaurant engagement. Lead cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and ship high-quality, production-ready code in a collaborative environment.

You will design scalable API solutions, work with TypeScript, REST/GraphQL, and databases like PostgreSQL or DynamoDB, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on coding and performance considerations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend/full-stack experience, delivering products that drive impact.
• Proficient with modern API design (TypeScript, REST, GraphQL) and relational databases or alternative data stores (e.g., PostgreSQL, DynamoDB).
• Balanced expertise: ability to design high-level technical solutions on a whiteboard while remaining deeply connected to code-level execution and system performance.
• Excellent communication: ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly to both technical peers and product leadership.
• Effectively works with ambiguity, agile delivery, and shipping usable software incrementally.
• Experience and interest in mentoring peers.
• Strong customer empathy and a drive to make their lives better through a thoughtful user experience, robust technical solutions, and continuous product improvement.

Responsibilities

• Lead fellow developers, product managers, and designers to build scheduling features.
• Turn ambiguous business goals into high-quality, production-ready code within a collaborative team environment.
• Mentor engineers via code-pairing, code review, and project reviews to raise the technical bar.
• Actively contribute to product design and feature discussions.

Skills

Backend development

Full-stack development

API design

TypeScript

REST/GraphQL

Mentoring

Communication

Agile

Tools

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Job description

Toast is seeking a senior backend/full-stack engineer to help build scheduling features that broaden Toast's footprint and deepen restaurant engagement. Lead cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and ship high-quality, production-ready code in a collaborative environment.

You will design scalable API solutions, work with TypeScript, REST/GraphQL, and databases like PostgreSQL or DynamoDB, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on coding and performance considerations.