Senior Software Engineer, Orders API

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 Senior Software Engineer to join the Orders API team.

On the Orders API team, our mission is to provide a state-of-the-art platform with unmatched reliability, which empowers Toast R&D, external partners, and customers to effortlessly innovate on experiences throughout the order lifecycle. Our primary artifact is the Orders API itself, which handles an immense scale of traffic to power critical operations every day.
As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you’ll play a key roll* in maintaining the high availability of this API, designing and implementing new features, evolving our architecture and tooling to ensure efficient high-quality delivery, and working with many other Toast R&D teams to bring high-visibility product experiences to life.

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

• Join a collaborative team of Design, Product, QA, and other engineering members in developing robust and scalable full-stack software applications
• Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers
• Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementation meet requirements
• Participate in architectural discussions and influence the technical roadmap
• 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

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• 5+ years of back-end experience in Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented languages
• Proficient with modern web standards and technologies (e.g. REST, GraphQL)
• Proficient with relational databases and alternative data stores
• Experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems, and/or microservices
• Experience delivering high-quality, reliable services to production
• Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics
• Passionate about technology and learning new things

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