Staff Software Engineer - Application Infrastructure

Toast

12h•$151,000 - $309,000•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. We are looking for an experienced software engineer to play a critical role in further scaling and developing Toast’s cloud platform and infrastructure. Toast’s platform processes billions of requests per day from hundreds of internal services and hundreds of thousands of mobile devices; these numbers grow exponentially year over year as we add new restaurants and capabilities to the platform. Our team is responsible for developing secure, observable, highly available, large-scale shared services and infrastructure.

Requirements

Hands-on experience building and operating complex, mission-critical, large-scale distributed systems in the Cloud
Expertise in asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, APIs, and integration patterns
Track record of delivering clean, maintainable, and resilient code that stands the test of time
Proficiency in Java or Kotlin preferred (experience in other modern programming languages also valued)
Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with demonstrated ability to align and inspire cross-functional teams
A demonstrated record of mentoring junior team members and enhancing the team's effectiveness

Responsibilities

Architect, design, and deliver ultra-reliable, high-performance services and infrastructure used by millions
Uncover and resolve performance bottlenecks across infrastructure, databases, and APIs
Define and enable adherence to engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural guidelines
Collaborate closely with the Product team to influence features, technical direction, and long-term product vision
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.