Software Engineer, Orders API

Toast•Boston, MA

3d•$104,000 - $213,000•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 Software Engineer to join the Orders API team. On the Orders API team, our mission is to provide a state-of-the-art platform with unmatched reliability, which empowers Toast R&D, external partners, and customers to effortlessly innovate on experiences throughout the order lifecycle. Our primary artifact is the Orders API itself, which handles an immense scale of traffic.

Requirements

3+ years of back-end experience in Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented languages
Proficient with modern web standards and API technologies (e.g. REST, GraphQL), including schema design, evolution, and versioning
Experience owning the testing strategy for a service or component — automated testing, coverage, and quality practices
Experience operating services in production — monitoring, alerting, observability, and incident response
Experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems, and/or microservices
Proficient with relational databases and alternative data stores
Proficient with AI tooling such as Cursor, Claude, and MCP servers
Strong cross-team communication skills on technical topics
Passionate about technology and learning new things

Responsibilities

Design and implement new features that improve functionality and reliability for our customers and partners
Define and drive the testing strategy, ensuring quality through strong automated coverage
Own operational monitoring — observability, alerting, and on-call response — and keep it highly available in production
Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementations meet requirements
Participate in architectural discussions and help evolve the API’s design, tooling, and delivery practices
Collaborate with Product, QA, and other engineering teams to deliver robust, scalable services
Advocate for best coding practices to raise the bar for you and your team
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.