Staff Software Engineer – Enterprise Platform & AI

Toast; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Toast is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead our Enterprise Sports & Entertainment team. You will work across the Toast platform, including our POS, backend, and frontend systems, delivering the most important features for sports and hospitality customers and directly impacting Toast’s success.

A Day In The Life includes designing, building, deploying, and maintaining scalable features, mentoring engineers, and partnering with Design and Product.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience building backend services and APIs.
• Extensive experience with an Object Oriented Language like Java or Kotlin, with good testing practices.
• Experience shipping production services with a focus on platform stability and reliability.
• Experience building backend services and APIs and scaling distributed systems.
• Android applications experience with Kotlin is a plus.
• Frontend applications experience is a plus.
• Focused on delivering positive impact for Toast customers.
• Excellent cross-team communication on complex technical topics.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain scalable features across Toast Sports & Entertainment offerings.
• Lead complex projects to improve functionality and reliability for customers.
• Partner with Design and Product in feature definition and design.
• Build automated tests to ensure quality of changes.
• Roll features out to customers with monitoring for success.
• Mentor and coach engineers across the team.
• Leverage AI tools to enhance development workflow and velocity.

Skills

Java/Kotlin

Backend services

Testing & quality

Cross-team communication

Mentoring engineers

Android Kotlin (nice to have)

Job description

Toast is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead our Enterprise Sports & Entertainment team. You will work across the Toast platform, including our POS, backend, and frontend systems, delivering the most important features for sports and hospitality customers and directly impacting Toast’s success.

A Day In The Life includes designing, building, deploying, and maintaining scalable features, mentoring engineers, and partnering with Design and Product.