Staff Software Engineer (Full Stack) - Guest

<p><strong>Staff Software Engineer, Full Stack - Guest team</strong></p> <p>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. Because our technology is purpose-built for restaurants, by restaurant people - and increasingly shaped by AI in both what we build and how we build - restaurants can trust that we’ll deliver on their needs for today while investing in the experiences that will power their restaurant of the future.</p> <p><strong>Are you bready* for a change?</strong></p> <p>We’re seeking a Staff Software Engineer to work within our team focused on building impactful capabilities that empower restaurants to drive Guest engagement, retention and growth. The team will help shape the future of how restaurants use technology to connect with their guests - increasingly through AI-powered tools and experiences that drive automation, personalization and smarter decision-making. You will be a key part of a high-impact, high-ownership engineering team solving complex challenges in a fast-moving product space. Your engineering leadership will be balancing technical excellence alongside a strong product mindset to solve for continuous growth within both the team and our product space.</p> <p><strong>About this </strong><strong><em>roll</em></strong><strong>* (Responsibilities)&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features</li> <li>Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers and partners</li> <li>Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast&nbsp;</li> <li>Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes</li> <li>Roll* features out to customers and partners, including monitoring for success</li> <li>Collaborate with UX and PM on the definition and design of features</li> <li>Mentor and coach other engineers</li> </ul> <p><strong>Do you have the right </strong><strong><em>ingredients*</em></strong><strong>? (Requirements)</strong></p> <ul> <li>8-12 years experience building backend services and APIs</li> <li>Extensive experience working with an Object Oriented Language like Java or Kotlin, with a deep understanding of testing, quality, and best practices</li> <li>Experience shipping production services and balancing getting things done with platform stability and reliability</li> <li>Experience building backend services and APIs and scaling distributed systems</li> <li>Focused on delivering positive impact for Toast customers</li> <li>Enjoys working in a team environment wi