Senior Software Engineer, Menus
About The Position
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. Every restaurant is unique, and a restaurant’s menu expresses its individual brand and product offerings. Inside a Toast restaurant, the definition of the menu becomes the common language between guests, servers, and the kitchen. In our digital ordering products, a great menu serves as both a billboard and a roadmap to an excellent dining experience. It is the central hub for restaurant configuration– it determines what guests can order, how the dishes are presented and priced in different contexts, where they are routed for fulfillment and how they are coursed, how they are prepared, whether the ingredients are still available, and how they are classified for reporting. A menu is always evolving: kitchens create new dishes, managers experiment with pricing and presentation, and staff optimize the menu for restaurant operations. We create products to satisfy the vast breadth of our restaurants, from single-location coffee shops to complex enterprise brands with thousands of locations. We offer an extremely powerful and configurable menu platform, and our team exists to ensure that this flexibility can be managed effectively at any scale. This includes feature-rich menu data models, APIs for both first and third party integrations (eg: DoorDash and other ordering partners), and the user experiences for configuring menus that meet a vast variety of needs, from complex customer segments (eg: Pizza shops) to our evolving Retail platform. We are looking for a senior engineer who is motivated by these challenges and eager to transform our menus architecture to meet the dynamic needs of our customers and our rapidly growing business. Come join our team to make an impact on this critical domain that affects all Toast customers!
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in back-end development using Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented languages
- Proficient with modern API standards and technologies (e.g. REST, GraphQL)
- Proficient with relational databases and alternative data stores
- Experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems, and/or microservices
- Demonstrated ability to deliver high-impact, scalable solutions in complex, multi-product environments
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
- Passionate about driving innovation and continuously improving engineering practices
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features in Toast’s menu management products through full-stack development
- Collaborate with UX, PM, QA and Engineering to define, design, and build best-in-class solutions in a complex and fast-moving environment
- Champion best practices for development, deployment and quality life-cycles
- Contribute to Toast’s internal libraries
- Guide the growth & development of peer engineers with mentoring and coaching
- Collaborate with team to plan and estimate work
- Share best practices with other frontend engineers across Toast R&D
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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