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Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise

RemoteRemoteFull TimeStaff$193,000–$309,000 /yrPosted 18 days agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • Staff Software Engineer
  • Enterprise
  • Sports & Entertainment
  • POS
  • Backend
  • Frontend
  • Highly Resilient
  • Scalable Features
  • Complex Projects
  • Automated Testing

Nice to have

  • Android Applications
  • Frontend Applications
  • AI
  • Innovation
  • Productivity

Role summary

Toast is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead their Enterprise Sports & Entertainment team. This role involves working across the entire platform (POS, backend, frontend) to deliver key features for hospitality customers. Responsibilities include designing, building, deploying, and maintaining scalable services, leading complex projects, ensuring quality through automated testing, and partnering with various cross-functional teams. The engineer will also mentor others and leverage AI tools to enhance development. Requirements include 8+ years of backend service and API experience, proficiency in an OOP language like Java or Kotlin, and experience with production services and distributed systems. Experience with Android and frontend development is a plus.

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.

Toast is looking for a Staff Software engineer to lead our Enterprise Sports & Entertainment team. You will get to work across the entire Toast platform, including our POS, backend, and front end systems. As a member of the Enterprise Sports & Entertainment team, you will help deliver the most important features for our Sports & Entertainment and hospitality customers and directly impact Toast’s success.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

  • Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features across Toast’s Sports & Entertainment product offerings
  • Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers
  • Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast
  • Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes
  • Roll* features out to customers, including monitoring for success
  • Partner closely with Design and Product on the definition and design of features
  • Partner with cross-functional functions including Customer Success, Solutions, Sales, Care, and Onboarding to ensure technical deliverables align with enterprise customer expectations and long-term strategy
  • Mentor and coach other engineers
  • 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.
  • What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

  • 8+ years experience building backend services and APIs
  • Extensive experience working with an Object Oriented Language like Java or Kotlin, with a deep understanding of testing, quality, and best practices
  • Experience shipping production services and balancing getting things done with platform stability and reliability
  • Experience building backend services and APIs and scaling distributed systems
  • Experience building android applications with kotlin is a plus
  • Experience building front end applications is a plus
  • Focused on delivering positive impact for Toast customers
  • Enjoys working in a team environment with a shared code-base
  • Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics
  • AI at Toast

    At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture.

    Our Total Rewards Philosophy We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.

    #LI-REMOTE

    The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills, experience, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible), equity, and benefits. You can learn more about how we align pay with local labor markets in our Geographic Pay Zone Philosophy.

    Zone A$193,000—$309,000 USDZone B$168,000—$269,000 USDZone C$151,000—$242,000 USD

    How Toast Uses AI in its Hiring Process

    Throughout the hiring process, our goal is to get to know you. We use AI tools to support our recruiters and interviewers with tasks like note-taking, summarization, and documentation of interviews to ensure they can be fully focused on your conversation. All hiring decisions are made by people. We ask that you complete interviews and assessments on your own, without real-time AI tools, recording, or transcription bots, unless we tell you otherwise in advance. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring

    Our Approach to Hybrid WorkingWe embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the hospitality community, regardless of location. Please visit the Locations page on our career site to learn more about our in-office expectations by region: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast

    People Are the Secret Ingredient in Our Recipe for Success

    At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry brings together people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we value that same breadth at Toast. We strive to build a culture grounded in authenticity, respect, and humility, where every Toaster has a real opportunity to grow, contribute, and do their best work—raising the bar in delivering exceptional experiences for our customers and each other.

    Apply today!

    Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.

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