Senior Software Engineer — Build Scalable Restaurant Tech

Toast; United States; Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 254,000; Full time

Job summary

Toast is hiring across multiple teams to build and scale core platform features used by thousands of restaurants and local businesses. You will contribute to resilient backend services, APIs, and intuitive web interfaces, collaborating across product, design, and engineering.

The role emphasizes leadership in engineering excellence, strong code quality, and scalable architectures with modern frontend frameworks and APIs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building production‑grade web apps and distributed systems.
• Proficiency with Java or Kotlin and modern frontend frameworks like React/TypeScript.
• Experience with REST/GraphQL APIs and relational or NoSQL databases.

Responsibilities

• End‑to‑End Product Execution: design, build and ship features across the stack.
• Architect & Build: create reliable, scalable systems using Java, Kotlin and frontend tech.
• 0‑to‑1 & Scaled Execution: drive new product development and handle scaling challenges.
• Technical Leadership & Quality: turn business goals into production‑ready code with good testing and observability.
• Engineering Excellence: raise technical bar and mentor engineers across teams.

Skills

5+ years software engineering

Java

Kotlin

React

TypeScript

REST

GraphQL

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

Job description

Toast is hiring across multiple teams to build and scale core platform features used by thousands of restaurants and local businesses. You will contribute to resilient backend services, APIs, and intuitive web interfaces, collaborating across product, design, and engineering.

The role emphasizes leadership in engineering excellence, strong code quality, and scalable architectures with modern frontend frameworks and APIs.