About the position
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. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Toast Tables team. Toast Tables is a fast-growing, fully integrated waitlist and reservations platform that allows restaurants to generate and manage demand. It ties in with many of Toast’s other systems so that restaurants can bring a magical, fully digital, end-to-end experience to guests. The Toast Tables team at Toast is all about creating exceptional reservations experiences for restaurants and their guests. We’re product-obsessed, focused on innovation, and committed to building scalable, reliable solutions that are used by millions of restaurant-goers every day. If you’re ready to make an impact on a massive scale, this is the place for you.
Responsibilities
- Be a part of team working collaboratively with UX, PM, QA and other engineers building web applications using modern web technologies
- Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for customers within a collaborative, supportive environment.
- Ship code that directly impacts and drives Toast’s growth.
- Contribute to new product features from the ground up, ensuring innovation and technical excellence.
- Advocate for best coding practices, raising the bar for yourself, your team, and the company.
- Partner with experienced engineers in design and code reviews to maintain high standards.
- Monitor feature rollouts to ensure customer success, iterating and improving when necessary.
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems critical to our customers’ success.
- Tackle scaling challenges and implement robust solutions.
- Diagnose performance bottlenecks and optimize for better performance.
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience with Java, Kotlin, or similar object-oriented languages.
- Proficient in modern web technologies and UI frameworks (e.g., React, Javascript, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL) with 3+ years of relevant experience.
- Experienced with databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB) including schema design and optimization.
- In-depth understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and enterprise messaging.
- Familiar with asynchronous communication tools (e.g., Pulsar, JMS, Kafka).
- Proven track record of delivering reliable services to production.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
- A passion for technology and continuous learning.
- Enthusiasm for solving impactful challenges and writing clean, scalable code.
- A focus on both personal and team growth, balancing task completion with platform stability.
- The capacity to tackle complex and ambiguous problems, communicate clearly with others to solve the problem, and share knowledge to help the whole team succeed.
- Exposure to distributed systems is a plus.
- Enjoys building well-engineered, usable and accessible systems.
- Experience working in a team with Agile/Scrum methodology.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits programs.
- Cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions, if eligible).
- Equity (if eligible).
- Flexible work model that fosters in-person collaboration.
