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Staff Backend Software Engineer

Reposted 12 Days Ago
In-Office or Remote
2 Locations
155K-248K Annually
Senior level
In-Office or Remote
2 Locations
155K-248K Annually
Senior level
The Staff Backend Software Engineer will enhance consumer payment experiences, lead projects, and collaborate with a full-stack team to deliver impactful features.
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Who We Are

The Consumer team at Toast is all about creating exceptional consumer experiences for restaurants and their guests. We’re product-obsessed, focused on innovation, and committed to building scalable, reliable solutions that are used by millions of restaurant-goers every day. If you’re ready to make an impact on a massive scale, this is the place for you.


Bready* to make a change?

Toast is a best-in-class restaurant platform that helps restaurant owners and managers adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love. Having built this widely loved platform over the last decade, we believe that we can leverage our strong positioning to create a restaurant-friendly consumer network.

To this end, Toast is looking for a Staff Backend Software Engineer to take responsibility for building new, innovative solutions to expand how Guests interact with our consumer-facing digital dining product (Local by Toast) within the Consumer product group. You will be on a team of frontend, backend, and native mobile developers, working to build the best digital restaurant experience for Consumers.


About this roll* (Responsibilities)

In this role, you'll get to work on a wide variety of projects, using your technical chops to influence not just the code, but also product and business strategies. This is a golden opportunity for a hands-on, entrepreneurial engineer who thrives in a modern tech stack environment and loves solving real-world problems through technology. You’ll run experiments, iterate quickly, and have a strong voice in shaping the future of app experiences here at Toast.  Here’s what you’ll be doing:

  • Be part of a team working collaboratively with Design, Product and other engineers
  • Flex your backend muscles with challenging end-to-end tasks in a supportive, collaborative team environment
  • Ship code that has a massive impact on the growth and strategy of Toast
  • Experiment directly with Guests and Restaurants to test new dining experiences
  • Champion best practices for development, deployment and quality life-cycles

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

  • 8+ years experience working in a microservice architecture with either Java/Kotlin
  • You can excel working in a full-stack team
  • Track record of delivering high impact features and leading projects
  • You know how to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system performance through logging and metrics
  • You’re hungry to learn more and willing to take on challenging projects if it means you’ll be a better engineer at the end
  • Passionate about writing testable code, with experience in API design and unit/integration testing
  • Thrive in a collaborative, team-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


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), benefits, and equity (if eligible).

Pay Range
$155,000$248,000 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.

Apply today!

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 [email protected].

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Top Skills

Java,Kotlin,Microservices

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