Staff Software Engineer- International

Toast; Dublin (CA); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Toast is seeking an experienced Senior Engineer to join the International team in Dublin. You will design, build, and maintain highly scalable backend services (Java/Kotlin) and contribute to cutting-edge AI-enabled development workflows.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and partner with pilot customers to ensure successful delivery. The role is hybrid, requiring in-office collaboration two days per week in Dublin, Ireland.

Qualifications

• 8+ years delivering high quality services to production.
• Proven track record architecting and debugging large distributed multi-threaded applications.
• Ability to drive across tech stack and mentor peers.
• Passionate about user impact and product success.
• Agile mindset focused on delivering usable software.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex projects within a cross-functional collaborative environment.
• Design, build, deploy and maintain highly resilient, scalable systems.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to team members; lead technical discussions.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Distributed systems

Leadership

Agile

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.

What is our Mission

Toast has established itself as the leading hospitality platform in the US, and we are now setting our sights on the global stage. As part of the International team, in our mission to expand globally, we are building what it takes to help our customers thrive. You will join a high-impact, high-ownership engineering team solving complex technical challenges. We are looking for leadership that balances technical excellence with a strong customer mindset to drive continuous growth for both the team and our platform.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

• Lead complex projects within a cross-functional collaborative and supportive environment.
• Design, build, deploy and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems critical to our customers' success.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to team members, leading technical discussions and promoting best engineering practices.
• Work directly with pilot customers (sometimes in the restaurant!) to ensure successful delivery and operation
• Advocate for best coding practices, raising the bar for yourself, your team, and the company.
• 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.

What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

• 8+ years of experience in delivering high quality, reliable services to production using Java, Kotlin or other object oriented language(s)
• Proven track record of architecting, supporting and debugging large distributed & multi threaded applications.
• Drive to work across our tech stack and support other engineers in resolving challenging problems
• Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild.
• Ability to embrace an agile mindset focused on delivering usable software.

Experience with internationalization or global product launches is a plus

Our Tech Stack

• A core of Java & Kotlin based backend services.
• React SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook.
• Android app built in Java & Kotlin running in the restaurant.
• PostgresQL and Dynamodb as core persistence.
• Pulsar, Camel and RabbitMQ for message-based integrations.
• And many more technologies that help us build a top class platform.

This is a hybrid role requiring in-office collaboration two days per week in our Dublin office.

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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