Senior/Staff Software Engineer

<p>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.</p> <p>Engineers at Toast build the mission-critical foundation that powers thousands of restaurants and local businesses every single day. From real-time order processing and resilient payment infrastructure to automated intelligent workflows, our technology solves high-stakes, real-world problems at scale. We value high technical standards, hands-on execution, collaborative problem-solving, and building systems that directly impact our customers' success.</p> <ul> <li><strong>International:</strong> Scaling Toast’s core platform globally. You'll tackle localization, multi-currency architectures, international payment integrations, and regional compliance as we expand into new markets around the world.</li> <li><strong>Retail:</strong> Building the next generation of omnichannel commerce tools for retail merchants. You'll architect solutions that unify inventory, point-of-sale systems, and real-time transaction processing for businesses with physical and digital storefronts.</li> <li><strong>Enterprise:</strong> Architecting high-throughput, mission-critical systems designed for multi-location, enterprise-scale brands. You'll focus on system reliability, massive data scale, custom menu and pricing engine configurations, and complex multi-entity management.</li> </ul> <p><em>[We are hiring across multiple teams and levels. Your specific team, title, &amp; level will be evaluated and determined during the interview process based on scope, technical depth, and experience.]</em></p> <p><strong>A Day in the Life (Responsibilities)</strong></p> <ul> <li>End-to-End Product Execution: Design, build, and ship complete features across the stack—from resilient backend services and APIs to intuitive, responsive web interfaces.</li> <li>Architect &amp; Build: Create highly reliable, scalable systems using Java, Kotlin, and modern frontend frameworks (React, TypeScript) critical to Toast's core platform.</li> <li>0-to-1 &amp; Scaled Execution: Drive net-new product development and tackle complex scaling challenges to keep our platforms fast, decoupled, and seamless for users.</li> <li>Technical Leadership &amp; Quality: Turn ambiguous business goals into high-quality, production-ready code. Advocate for engineering best practices, robust testing, and deep system observability across the entire tech stack.</li> <li>Engineering Excellence: Elevate code quality across teams and mentor engineers to help raise the overall technical bar.&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><strong>What You'll Need to Thrive (Require