Senior Software Engineer (Core Frameworks)

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

Job summary

Toast is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Core Frameworks team to enhance the infrastructure used by developers. In this role, you'll lead projects, mentor team members, and integrate AI tools to optimize workflows.

Qualified candidates will have strong skills in Kotlin/Java, experience with API services, and a passion for delivering high-quality software solutions. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact across the company.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated leadership driving significant projects to completion from design to rollout.
• Expertise with Kotlin/Java.
• Experience integrating AI into developer tools.
• Confidence to take on big challenges and humility to ask questions when necessary.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex projects that impact developers across Toast.
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve production issues as they arise.
• Participate in architectural discussions and influence the technical roadmap.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members.

Skills

Kotlin/Java

AI integration

AWS

Docker

GitHub

Tools

Backend API Services

React/Typescript

ECS/K8s

Postgres

Job description

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy.

Join the Core Frameworks team, a focal point for foundational engineering at Toast. The Core Frameworks team empowers developers across the company by building and maintaining the core libraries and tools used for developing web services. We maintain and grow local development tools that accelerate engineers in the inner-loop of development, increasingly leveraging AI to enhance these workflows. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be crucial in maintaining and enhancing the infrastructure and tools used by hundreds of developers at Toast to create a best-in-class customer and guest experience. You'll work on developing new features—including AI-assisted capabilities—that will enable other programmers to be more productive and effective in doing their jobs.

We seek a proactive and skilled Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in building core libraries and developer tooling. In this role, you will work as part of a team of talented engineers and collaborate closely with product managers and internal users. You will design, develop, and maintain tools that streamline the software development lifecycle, exploring how AI can further optimize these processes. You’ll also contribute to key internal development platform components like service templates, manage LaunchDarkly for the company, and help teams identify dependencies that need to be upgraded. This position is ideal for someone with an eye toward systematic software development and is passionate about delivering high-quality software solutions that improve the work of other developers.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex projects that impact developers across Toast
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve production issues as they arise
• Participate in architectural discussions and influence the technical roadmap
• Advocate for best coding practices to raise the bar for you, your team, and the company
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members
• Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building—contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team.

Requirements

• Demonstrated leadership driving significant projects to completion from design to rollout
• Expertise with Kotlin/Java
• Experience integrating AI into developer tools
• Familiarity with developer tools: AWS, Docker, GitHub
• Experience building Backend API Services on a product-oriented team
• Confidence to take on big challenges and humility to ask questions when necessary

Nice to Haves

• Experience with one of the API standards: OpenAPI, gRPC or GraphQL
• Exposure to React/Typescript and Go
• Understanding of CICD workflows
• Experience with ECS/K8s, Gradle and Postgres
• Experience with Backstage Developer Portal

Benefits and Compensation

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.

The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills, experience, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible), equity, and benefits. You can learn more about how we align pay with local labor markets in our Geographic Pay Zone Philosophy.

Zone A: $159,000—$254,000 USD
Zone B: $138,000—$221,000 USD
Zone C: $125,000—$200,000 USD

Legal Disclaimers

For roles in the United States, it is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

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].