Staff Software Engineer, Websites

Toast

6h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Toast team is committed to building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best. The Websites team is responsible for advancing and supporting Toast’s website design and hosting product, working closely with the integrated Online Ordering product/team. This group is highly product-oriented, focused on creating top-tier consumer experiences for restaurants and their guests. The product line is relatively new but already used by millions daily, requiring innovation at a huge scale while ensuring stability and scalability. In this role, the engineer will work on a wide variety of projects, influencing code, product, and business strategies. This is an opportunity for a hands-on, entrepreneurial engineer who thrives in a modern tech stack environment and loves solving real-world problems through technology, running experiments, iterating quickly, and shaping the future of online ordering and Websites at Toast.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience developing fullstack web applications
• Proficient in backend technologies like Java/Kotlin and Node.JS.
• Skilled with frontend frameworks like React or Angular, and CSS frameworks like Tailwind or Bootstrap.
• Experienced in building on AWS, with tools like Docker and Git.
• Comfortable turning high-fidelity UX designs from Figma into reality.
• Adept at designing databases and architectures that scale and perform well.
• Passionate about writing testable code, with experience in API design and unit/integration testing.
• Thrive in a collaborative, team-based environment where you ship features together.
• Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild.
• Embrace the agile mindset—ship quickly, iterate, and refine.
• Harness AI to supercharge your output and push the boundaries of what our product can do.

Responsibilities

• Design, scope, and implement cutting-edge solutions using a mix of technologies.
• Raise the bar to boost quality, performance, usability, and scalability of the Websites product.
• Collaborate closely with Design and Product stakeholders to chase product-market fit.
• Drive discovery of high-impact opportunities with your team and turn them into reality.
• Be an awesome teammate who’s all in on collaboration and collective success.
• Work across teams to ensure that every part of our product ecosystem works seamlessly together to deliver the best possible experience for our customers.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees