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 POS Team.
On the Orders POS Team, our mission is to provide a state of the art platform for processing and synchronizing changes to orders that enables Toast to build complex and customizable workflows for our customers.
As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you’ll play a key role in designing and implementing new features, evolving our architecture and tooling to ensure efficient high-quality delivery, and working with many other Toast R&D teams to bring high-visibility product experiences to life, ensuring that over 1 billion order changes per week across over 134,000 customers are processed quickly and accurately.
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features supporting Toast’s Orders platform and Orders workflows
- Join a collaborative team of Design, Product, QA, and other engineering members in developing robust and scalable software within Toast’s POS applications
- Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers
- Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementations meet requirements
- Participate in architectural discussions and influence the technical roadmap
- Advocate for best coding practices to raise the bar for you, your team, and the company
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members
Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)
- 5+ years of experience with Object Oriented Languages like Java or Kotlin on Android
- Deep understanding of automated testing, quality, and SDLC best practices for Android applications
- Proficient with persistent connection web technologies (e.g. gRPC)
- Proficient with relational databases and alternative data stores
- Experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems, and/or microservices
- Experience delivering high-quality, reliable apps or libraries to production
- Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics
- Passionate about technology and learning new things
Our Spread* of Total Rewards
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.
*Bread puns encouraged but not required
The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills and experience. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible), equity, and benefits.
Pay Range
$134,000—$214,000 USD
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success
At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.
We Thrive Together
We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.
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Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.
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Toast Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
515 North State Street, Chicago, IL, United States, 60654
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