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Senior Backend Engineer

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In-Office
Boston, MA
Senior level
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Boston, MA
Senior level
The Senior Backend Engineer will design and implement eCommerce solutions, ensure system performance, and mentor engineers while collaborating with cross-functional teams.
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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.

Bready* to make a change?

Join Toast's business technology transformation engineering team and be at the forefront of business transformation and revenue acceleration. Our team directly impacts Toast's growth by reshaping the end-to-end sales funnel, enabling self-service at scale, and optimizing customer onboarding.  In this roll you'll architect and implement innovative eCommerce and sales tools that drive ARR growth and enhance customer satisfaction, making a tangible impact on how Toast sells and expands.

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

  • Translate requirements into solutions, hands-on contributions in designing and building key architectural components and integrations that make up our eCommerce Platform.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to get the job done and provide insights necessary to think beyond the status quo. 
  • Review code to ensure that technical implementation meets functional requirements, as well as our high standards for code quality and testing.
  • Ensure that our systems are performant, scalable, resilient and highly available
  • Collaborate with UX, PM, QA and Engineering to build best-in-class solutions in a complex and fast-moving environment
  • Champion best practices for development, deployment and quality life-cycles
  • Guide the growth & development of engineers with mentoring and training.
  • 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.

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

  • Experience delivering high quality, reliable services to production using Java or Kotlin 
  • Emphasis on back-end code but must be familiar with front-end concepts and development as well
  • Strong testing discipline, writing unit and integration tests and believing in automation to maintain software quality.
  • Experience integrating with third party products and applications, including Salesforce, Netsuite and billing platforms.
  • Familiarity with NoSQL databases, preferably DynamoDB, Postgres
  • Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Lead by example, at times, working alongside the team in defining requirements, workflows, interaction, user journeys, process/screen flows, and wireframes

AI at Toast
At Toast 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 Spread* of Total Rewards
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.

*Bread puns encouraged but not required

The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills and experience. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions, if eligible), benefits, and equity (if eligible).

Pay Range
$134,000$214,000 USD

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.

We Thrive Together

We 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 restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.

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 [email protected].

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Top Skills

DynamoDB
Java
Kotlin
NetSuite
NoSQL
Postgres
Salesforce

Toast Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND Office

Toast’s office in Chennai is filled with innovation, passion, and creativity. With its exciting tech scene and unique restaurant culture, Chennai has been a perfect place to help us further expand globally.

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