Senior Software Engineer (Backend), Menus

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world. They are looking for a senior engineer who is motivated to transform their menus architecture to meet the dynamic needs of their customers and rapidly growing business.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features in Toast’s menu management products through full-stack development
• Collaborate with UX, PM, QA and Engineering to define, design, and build best-in-class solutions in a complex and fast-moving environment
• Champion best practices for development, deployment and quality life-cycles
• Contribute to Toast’s internal libraries
• Guide the growth & development of peer engineers with mentoring and coaching
• Collaborate with team to plan and estimate work
• Share best practices with other frontend engineers across Toast R&D

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in back-end development using Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented languages
• Proficient with modern API standards and technologies (e.g. REST, GraphQL)
• Proficient with relational databases and alternative data stores
• Experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems, and/or microservices
• Demonstrated ability to deliver high-impact, scalable solutions in complex, multi-product environments
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Passionate about driving innovation and continuously improving engineering practices