Senior Software Engineer, Orders Pricing

Toast•Boston, MA

5d•$125,000 - $254,000•Hybrid

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. 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 Software Engineer to join the Orders Pricing team. Orders Pricing team owns how every order is priced — the rules, discounts, taxes, and service charges that determine what a guest pays. Our pricing engine has to be exactly right, every time, across an immense scale of traffic and every surface an order touches, from the cloud to the point of sale. The pricing engine is a critical part of the company strategy as we expand into new verticals, encountering new complexities and pricing rules.

Requirements

5+ years of back-end experience in Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented languages
Track record of driving significant projects from design through rollout
Proficient with modern web standards and API technologies (e.g. REST, GraphQL), including schema design, evolution, and versioning
Experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems, and/or microservices
Experience operating services in production — monitoring, alerting, observability, and incident response
Proficient with relational databases and alternative data stores
Proficient with AI tooling such as Cursor, Claude, and MCP servers
Strong leadership and mentoring skills
Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics
Passionate about technology and learning new things

Responsibilities

Drive significant projects from design through rollout, owning the technical direction and delivery
Design and implement pricing features that improve accuracy and reliability for our customers and partners
Mentor less experienced engineers and raise the technical bar across the team
Participate in architectural discussions and help evolve the pricing engine’s design, tooling, and delivery practices
Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementations meet requirements
Own operational monitoring — observability, alerting, and on-call response — and keep pricing highly available in production
Collaborate with Product, QA, and other engineering teams to deliver robust, scalable services
Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team.