Staff Software Engineer

Toast; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Toast is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join our Payments team in Bangalore. You will design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs that handle millions of transactions for Toast customers.

You'll lead complex projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with UX and PM while balancing speed and platform reliability. Experience in Java or Kotlin, AWS, and distributed systems is essential to succeed in this role.

Qualifications

• A minimum of three year undergraduate degree in any related discipline.
• 9-13 years experience building backend services and APIs.
• Extensive experience with Java or Kotlin, with testing and quality focus.
• Experience shipping production services balancing speed and stability.
• Experience building backend services and scaling distributed systems.
• Experience building Android apps with Kotlin is a plus.
• Focused on delivering positive impact for Toast customers.
• Enjoys working in a team environment with a shared code-base.
• Excellent cross-team communication on complex topics.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features.
• Lead complex projects to improve functionality and reliability.
• Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast.
• Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes.
• Roll features out to customers and partners, including monitoring for success.
• Collaborate with UX and PM on feature definition and design.
• Mentor and coach other engineers.

Skills

Backend leadership

Mentoring others

Cross-team collaboration

Testing practices

Education

Undergraduate degree in related discipline

Tools

Java

Kotlin

DropWizard

AWS

PostgreSQL

RabbitMQ

Spark

React

Android

Job description

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.

Toast is looking for a Staff Software engineer to join our Payments team in Bangalore. This team will be responsible for building end to end 3rd party processors responsible for managing millions of transactions for our customers.

About this roll (Responsibilities)

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features
• Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers and partners
• Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast
• Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes
• Roll* features out to customers and partners, including monitoring for success
• Collaborate with UX and PM on the definition and design of features
• Mentor and coach other engineers

Do you have the right ingredients (Requirements)

• A minimum of three year undergraduate degree in any related discipline
• 9-13 years experience building backend services and APIs
• Extensive experience working with an Object Oriented Language like Java or Kotlin, with a deep understanding of testing, quality, and best practices
• Experience shipping production services and balancing getting things done with platform stability and reliability
• Experience building backend services and APIs and scaling distributed systems
• Experience building android applications with kotlin is a plus
• Focused on delivering positive impact for Toast customers
• Enjoys working in a team environment with a shared code-base
• Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics

Our Tech Stack

Toast’s products run on a stack that ranges from guest and restaurant-facing Android tablets to backend services in Java to internal, guest-facing and restaurant-facing web apps. Our backend services follow a microservice architecture written using Java 8 and DropWizard; we use AWS extensively, ranging from S3 to RDS to Lambda. We have our own platform for dealing with user management, service elevations and robust load balancing. Toast stores data in a set of sharded Postgres databases and utilizes Apache Spark for large scale data workloads including query and batch processing. The front-end is built primarily using React and ES6. The main Toast POS application is an Android application written in Java and Kotlin. For data between tablets and our cloud platform we operate RabbitMQ clusters as well as direct tablet communication to the back end.

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.

How Toast Uses AI In Its Hiring Process

Throughout the hiring process, our goal is to get to know you. We use AI tools to support our recruiters and interviewers with tasks like note-taking, summarization, and documentation of interviews to ensure they can be fully focused on your conversation. All hiring decisions are made by people. We ask that you complete interviews and assessments on your own, without real-time AI tools, recording, or transcription bots, unless we tell you otherwise in advance. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring

Our Approach to Hybrid Working

We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the hospitality community, regardless of location. Please visit the Locations page on our career site to learn more about our in-office expectations by region: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast

People Are the Secret Ingredient in Our Recipe for Success

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry brings together people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we value that same breadth at Toast. We strive to build a culture grounded in authenticity, respect, and humility, where every Toaster has a real opportunity to grow, contribute, and do their best work—raising the bar in delivering exceptional experiences for our customers and each other.

Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact [e-mail].

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