Who We Are
The Consumer team at Toast is all about creating exceptional consumer experiences for restaurants and their guests. We’re product-obsessed, focused on innovation, and committed to building scalable, reliable solutions that are used by millions of restaurant-goers every day. If you’re ready to make an impact on a massive scale, this is the place for you.
Bready* to make a change?
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. We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join the Toast Tables team.
Toast Tables is a fast-growing, fully integrated waitlist and reservations platform that allows restaurants to generate and manage demand. It ties in with many of Toast’s other systems so that restaurants can bring a magical, fully digital, end-to-end experience to guests.
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
In this role, you'll get to work on a wide variety of projects, using your technical chops to influence not just the code, but also product and business strategies. This is a golden opportunity for a hands-on, entrepreneurial engineer who thrives in a modern tech stack environment and loves solving real-world problems through technology. You’ll run experiments, iterate quickly, and have a strong voice in shaping the future of app experiences here at Toast. Here’s what you’ll be doing:
- Be part of a team working collaboratively with Design, Product and other engineers
- Flex your backend muscles with challenging end-to-end tasks in a supportive, collaborative team environment
- Ship code that has a massive impact on the growth and strategy of Toast
- Experiment directly with Guests and Restaurants to test new dining experiences
- Champion best practices for development, deployment and quality life-cycles
Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)
- 6+ years of experience with object-oriented languages like Java or Kotlin.
- Experienced with databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB) including schema design and optimization.
- In-depth understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and enterprise messaging.
- Familiar with asynchronous communication tools (e.g., Pulsar, JMS, Kafka).
- Proven track record of delivering reliable services to production.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
- A passion for technology and continuous learning.
- Enthusiasm for solving impactful challenges and writing clean, scalable code.
- A focus on both personal and team growth, balancing task completion with platform stability.
- The capacity to tackle complex and ambiguous problems, communicate clearly with others to solve the problem, and share knowledge to help the whole team succeed
- Exposure to distributed systems is a plus
- Enjoys building well-engineered, usable and accessible systems
- Experience working in a team with Agile/Scrum methodology
The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills and experience. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions, if eligible), benefits, and equity (if eligible).
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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.
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