Staff Software Engineer, Orders

Toast

1d•$151,000 - $309,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Toast creates technology that helps restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world. The Orders POS Team provides a state-of-the-art platform for processing and synchronizing order changes, enabling complex and customizable customer workflows. As a Staff Software Engineer on this team, you will design and implement new features, evolve architecture and tooling for efficient, high-quality delivery, and work with Toast R&D teams to deliver high-visibility product experiences. The platform processes more than 1 billion order changes per week across more than 200,000 customers. You will lead significant, cross-team capabilities spanning cloud services and point-of-sale systems; shape architectural decisions and technical roadmaps; serve as a domain expert in order processing and synchronization; and provide technical guidance to colleagues. The role involves close collaboration with Design, Product, QA, and engineering partners, as well as hands-on development and use of AI-assisted tools to improve development workflows.

Requirements

8+ years of experience with object-oriented languages such as Java or Kotlin.
Track record of delivering significant platform capabilities across multiple teams in large engineering organizations.
Mobile and backend development expertise, with a focus on distributed systems at high scale in large codebases.
Deep understanding of automated testing, quality, and SDLC best practices, with a history of shipping reliable applications, microservices, and libraries to production.
Experience delivering high-quality, reliable applications or libraries to production.
Expertise with modern API technologies such as REST and GraphQL, including schema design, evolution, and versioning across many consumers.
Experience owning business-critical production services, leading incident response, and driving long-term reliability improvements.
Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics.
Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools, such as Claude, Cursor, or MCP servers.
Passion for technology and learning new things.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and delivery of significant Orders platform capabilities spanning multiple teams, from the cloud to point of sale.
Collaborate with Design, Product, QA, and engineering colleagues to develop robust and scalable software within Toast POS applications.
Drive architectural decisions for correctness, performance, and scale, and author and review technical designs within and beyond the team.
Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementations meet requirements.
Align the Orders platform's technical vision and roadmap with Toast's strategy.
Serve as a domain expert in order processing and synchronization and as a go-to partner for teams building products on orders.
Advocate for best coding practices and raise engineering standards across the team and company.
Mentor and provide technical guidance to team members and raise the engineering bar across the Orders organization.
Use AI tools to improve development workflows and velocity and contribute to new approaches to building.