Staff Software Engineer, Orders

Toast builds technology for restaurants and local businesses. The Staff Software Engineer will design and deliver capabilities for the Orders platform, evolve its architecture and tooling, and collaborate across R&D teams to support accurate, scalable order processing and product experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and delivery of significant capabilities on Toast's Orders platform that span multiple teams, from the cloud to the point of sale
• Join a collaborative team of Design, Product, QA, and other engineering members in developing robust and scalable software within Toast’s POS applications
• Drive architectural decisions for correctness, performance, and scale; author and review technical designs within and beyond the team
• Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementations meet requirements
• Align the technical vision and roadmap for the Orders platform with Toast's strategy
• Be a domain expert for order processing and synchronization, and the go-to partner for teams whose products build on orders
• Advocate for best coding practices to raise the bar for you, your team, and the company
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members and raise the engineering bar across the team and the broader Orders organization

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience with Object Oriented Languages like Java or Kotlin
• Track record of delivering significant platform capabilities across multiple teams in large engineering organizations
• A mix of mobile and backend development expertise, focused on distributed systems problems at high scale in large codebases
• Deep understanding of automated testing, quality, and SDLC best practices, with a history of shipping reliable apps, microservices, and libraries to production
• Experience delivering high-quality, reliable apps or libraries to production
• Expertise with modern API technologies (e.g. REST, GraphQL), including schema design, evolution, and versioning across many consumers
• Experience owning business-critical services in production: leading incident response and driving long-term reliability improvements
• Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude, Cursor, MCP servers)
• Passionate about technology and learning new things
• 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