Staff Software Engineer - Application Infrastructure

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world. They are looking for an experienced software engineer to play a critical role in further scaling and developing Toast’s cloud platform and infrastructure, responsible for developing secure, observable, highly available, large-scale shared services and infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, and deliver ultra-reliable, high-performance services and infrastructure used by millions
• Uncover and resolve performance bottlenecks across infrastructure, databases, and APIs
• Define and enable adherence to engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural guidelines
• Collaborate closely with the Product team to influence features, technical direction, and long-term product vision
• Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience building and operating complex, mission-critical, large-scale distributed systems in the Cloud
• Expertise in asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, APIs, and integration patterns
• Track record of delivering clean, maintainable, and resilient code that stands the test of time
• Proficiency in Java or Kotlin preferred (experience in other modern programming languages also valued)
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with demonstrated ability to align and inspire cross-functional teams
• A demonstrated record of mentoring junior team members and enhancing the team's effectiveness