Senior Software Engineer- Fullstack
Toast is building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: growing businesses they love. Our platform helps streamline operations, increase revenue, and deliver outstanding guest experiences by combining restaurant point of sale, team management, guest-facing technology, and award-winning customer support. As a Toaster, you'll be part of a team that takes on meaningful projects to shape the company's future. Join us as we empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.
Are you bready* for a change?
We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer, to join our organisation in Bangalore, who has the ability and drive to make an impact, not only on their own but by also enabling those around them to succeed. Your team will own the code to manage integrations with Toast for all our partners and customers. You will work with the team to help build a feature rich, consistent, unified experience for anyone who wishes to connect to Toasts APIs, consume our data and integrate with restaurants. You will also play a role in evolving our architecture to support ever more complex new features and best-in-class monitoring as we scale to orders of magnitude of our current size!
If you want to help create something tangible that is used every day, help small businesses achieve their vision, and take on the challenge of scaling a SaaS product, Toast is the place for you.
Location: Bangalore or Willing to relocate
Work mode: Hybrid
Experience: 6-9 years
Education: Minimum Bachelors Degree Required
What You'll Do:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, product managers, designers) to build features for connecting our partners and customers and take full ownership of key components.
- 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.
Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)
- 6+ 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
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
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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.
Top Skills
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.
