Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Toast creates technology that helps restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world. The Senior Software Engineer will build and maintain Toast Delivery Services software, including resilient systems for delivery tracking, pricing, refunds, and real-time order coordination, while tackling scaling challenges and mentoring teammates.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems critical to our customers' success
- Build the real-time backbone that keeps restaurants and guests confident about where an order is and when it will land
- Work with product managers and designers to get money movement right, from delivery pricing through refunds, where correctness is not negotiable
- Tackle scaling challenges and implement robust solutions
- Advocate for best coding practices, raising the bar for yourself, your team, and the company
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members
Skills
- Knowledge of Kotlin, Java or another object-oriented language
- Experienced with databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB) including schema design and optimization
- In-depth understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and enterprise messaging
- Proven track record of delivering reliable services to production
- Comfort with systems where partner APIs, real-world timing, and imperfect data are the normal operating conditions
- The capacity to tackle complex and ambiguous problems, communicate clearly with others to solve the problem, and share knowledge to help the whole team succeed
- Driven by real-world customer impact
- Experience with logistics, mapping, or other systems that model the physical world
- Background in payments, refunds, or financial reconciliation
- Proficient in modern web technologies and UI frameworks (e.g., React, Javascript, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL)
Benefits
- Cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible)
- Equity
- Benefits
- AI tools provided across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support
- Hybrid work model
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