Backend Software Engineer II

Toast is driven by building the all-in-one restaurant platform that helps restaurants operate their business, increase sales, engage guests, and keep employees happy.

Toast is looking for an engineer to join our Digital Order Management team. This team is responsible for making sure that delivery orders flow smoothly from kitchen to customer, by providing accurate delivery time information to ensure a great experience and enabling restaurants to manage capacity strategies to maximize efficiency.

If you want to be at the forefront of creating something tangible that is used every day to help restaurants worldwide achieve their vision, then Toast is the place for you.

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

• Work collaboratively with PM, QA and other engineers building services using modern technologies
• Contribute & gain experience at every stage – solution design, estimation, coding, code review, testing, debugging, integrating, documenting, and maintaining
• Champion best practices – quality integration, continuous delivery, automated testing, security reviews, end-to-end testing, performance testing
• Ensure that all work is delivered with quality and is monitored and supported in production
  
  

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• 2+ years of professional experience with Java, Kotlin or another object-oriented language
• Capacity to tackle complex and ambiguous problems, communicate clearly with others to solve the problem, and share knowledge to help the whole team succeed
• Enjoys building well-engineered, reliable, and scalable services
• Driven by real-world customer impact
• Experience working in a team with Agile/Scrum methodology focused on delivering reliable high-quality software
  
  

Special Sauce* (Nice to Haves)

• Exposure to distributed systems
• Experience with AWS technologies like DynamoDB and ECS and message queues such as Apache Kafka / Pulsar.
  
  

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

• A core of Kotlin based backend services.
• DynamoDB as core persistence.
• Apache Pulsar for message-based integrations.
• And many more technologies that help us build a top class platform.
• We love a great bread/food pun
• This is a hybrid role requiring in-office presence two days per week ***
  
  

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.

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

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.

We Thrive Together

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 restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.

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].

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