About the Role
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. International expansion is a critical growth engine for Toast's future. Outside the US, Toast currently operates in Canada, UK, Ireland, and Australia and is actively growing its product platform in these markets. As Toast gains market share, it is increasing its upmarket product investment into Mid Market (MM). The goal is to win and retain larger and more complex restaurant and hospitality operators. As part of this team's mission, you will get close to customers to fully understand the nuances of each of their unique needs, to ensure your contributions are making a meaningful impact to their business. As a Senior Engineer you will be responsible for delivering these features from start to finish, ensuring code quality, high technical architectural standards and high quality products.
Responsibilities
•Design, build and maintain high performing, flexible, and scalable solutions that help restaurants operate their business effectively
•Ship features end-to-end, from design through rollout, monitoring for success and iterating based on real-world use
•Be an awesome teammate who's all in on collaboration and collective success
•Collaborate closely with Product, Design and Engineering stakeholders
•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
•Mentor less experienced engineers and up-level the team through design reviews, constructive feedback, and agent-assisted engineering practices
Requirements
•5+ years of backend/full-stack experience, delivering products that drive impact
•Ability to read and integrate with frontend applications; showing curiosity to work across the stack when needed
•Excited about AI-assisted development and LLM-based agents (Claude Code or similar), and interested in pioneering new workflows with the team
•Effectively works with ambiguity, agile delivery, and shipping usable software incrementally
•Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild
•Strong on software development fundamentals — code quality, unit tests, clean code — and open to evolving your workflow with AI tooling
•Strong collaboration skills: you communicate clearly with engineers, product, and business stakeholders, and adapt technical detail to the audience
•Curiosity and a growth mindset: you seek feedback, embrace change, and want to grow toward broader ownership
Our Tech Stack
•A core of Java & Kotlin based backend services
•React SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook
•Android app built in Java & Kotlin running in the restaurant
•Claude Code and similar AI agentic development tools as part of daily engineering
•PostgreSQL and DynamoDB as core persistence
•And many more technologies that help us build a top class platform
AI at Toast
At Toast, one of the company values is being hungry to build and learn. Toast believes learning new AI tools empowers people to build for customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. These tools are provided across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support.
