Staff Software Engineer - Identity & Access

Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.

And because our technology is purpose-built for restaurants, by restaurant people, restaurants can trust that we’ll deliver on their needs for today while investing in experiences that will power their restaurant of the future.

Are you bready* for a change?

Toast is looking for a highly-motivated and organised back-end Staff Engineer to join our Identity & Access Management team in the Cloud Services & Infrastructure organization to play a critical role in developing reliable code and algorithms in our user management, permission, and web services. We are looking for an engineer with previous experience in this space, who has the ability and drive to lead and make an impact, not only on their own but by also enabling those around them to succeed. Partnering with stakeholders, product managers, product designers, product data analysts, and other engineers, you will be part of a team responsible for ensuring that our practices in the development of our platform are safe and secure. You will also be responsible for developing and maintaining core services and repositories in Toast, including integrations, managing users, authentication, and permissions.

The Toast platform processes tens of millions of requests per day, and this number grows constantly as we add new restaurants and integration partners to our system. The services we develop on this team are essential for Toast’s operation and their resilience and reliability are crucial from a business and user perspective.

If you want to help create something tangible that is used every day, help small businesses achieve their vision, and take on the challenge of scaling a SaaS product from millions of users to hundreds of millions of users, Toast is the place for you.

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

• Be part of a team working collaboratively with UX, PM, QA and other engineers designing, building and maintaining high performance, flexible and highly scalable microservices for user management, permission, and web services, as well as development of associated web and mobile applications
• Define best practices and help choose technologies to evolve our current tech. stack while writing world-class applications
• Champion best practices such as quality integration and unit testing
• Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementations meet requirements
• Ensure that all work done is delivered with quality and is appropriately monitored and supported in production
• Mentoring other team members
  
  

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• Minimum 8-10 years experience as a software engineer
• Previous experience with the Authentication or Authorisation domains
• Experience delivering high quality, reliable services to production using Java, Kotlin or other object oriented language(s)
• Experience of Javascript and modern web standards and technologies (e.g. HTML5, React, GraphQL)
• Proficient in Software Development best practices (Code Quality, UnitTest, BDD)
• Experience supporting and debugging a large multi threaded application.
• Enjoys and is passionate about building well-engineered, usable and accessible systems
• Exposure to distributed systems, scaling challenges, SaaS, SQL, JS, & Pulsar are a plus.
• Not required, but previous experience leading a team in the Agile/Scrum methodology or experience with Android/mobile development would also be a plus
• This is a hybrid role, requiring two days per week in the office**
  
  

What we use to make our dish (Our Tech Stack)

• A core of Java & Kotlin based backend services.
• React SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook.
• 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
  
  

Our Spread* of Total Rewards

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.

• Bread puns encouraged but not required
  
  

We are Toasters

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success.

At Toast our employees are our secret ingredient. When they are powered to succeed, Toast succeeds.

The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse industries. We embrace and are excited by this diversity, believing that only through authenticity, inclusivity, high standards of respect and trust, and leading with humility will we be able to achieve our goals.

Baking inclusive principles into our company and diversity into our design provides equitable opportunities for all and enhances our ability to be first in class in all aspects of our industry.

Bready* to make a change? Apply today!

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 [email protected].