[Remote] Senior Software Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Toast is a technology company that helps restaurants streamline operations, increase revenue, and improve guest experiences through its platform. Toast is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build and scale platforms for calculating and delivering pay to restaurant employees, leading reliable infrastructure and partnering across teams to deliver high-impact systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive the evolution of our tips and earnings platforms, leading complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers
• Take end-to-end ownership of systems, contributing to a strong engineering culture focused on correctness, reliability, and long-term maintainability
• Lead projects from design and estimation through implementation, testing, and deployment to help shape how we build reliable systems at scale
• Ship code that directly impacts product revenue and the accuracy of what restaurant employees are paid
• Partner with product and design to influence what we build and how we build it
• Contribute to and elevate team standards through thoughtful code reviews and technical discussions
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members
• Leverage AI tools like Claude to accelerate development and pioneer better ways to work

Skills

• 5+ years of back-end experience with one or more object-oriented programming languages (such as Java, Kotlin, or similar)
• Proficient with modern web standards and technologies (e.g. React, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL)
• Proficient with traditional databases and alternative data stores
• Experience owning and operating production systems
• Experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems, and/or microservices
• A strong appreciation for precision and correctness, because when the output drives someone's paycheck, getting the calculation right matters
• A track record of tackling ambiguous, high-impact challenges and delivering scalable solutions
• Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics
• Passionate about technology and learning new things

Benefits

• Cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible)
• Equity
• Benefits
• AI tools provided across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support
• Hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs
• Flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs

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