Guest Engagement: Software Engineer II

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.

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. Because our technology is purpose-built for restaurants, by restaurant people, restaurants can trust that we’ll deliver on their needs for today while investing in experiences that will power their restaurant of the future. 

Are you bready* for a change?

Are you interested in using the latest technology to help our customers build amazing relationships with their guests? Does the idea of developing products that help people cherish their best moments in life sound exciting to you? As an engineer on the Guest Engagement team, your mission will be creating the next generation of engagement experiences that help bring new guests into the restaurants, and turn them into regulars. You will work closely with UX, PM and QA to help deliver some real impact on real people.

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

• Design, build and maintain high performing, flexible and scalable solutions
• Build APIs for easily accessing our data internally and externally
• Create products and features that help restaurants run best in class guest experience
• Collaborate with team members and other engineers across the company

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Qualities & Essential Skills)

• Strong experience with Kotlin, Java or another object-oriented language, with a deep understanding of testing, quality & best practices.
• The ability to take complex business problems, and create easy to use solutions at scale.
• Experience supporting and debugging a large multi threaded application.
• 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.
• Proficiency in delivering projects to customers under strict deadlines.
• Prior experience making an impact on a previous project, product or within an organization.
• Exposure to distributed systems, scaling challenges, SaaS, SQL, JS, RabbitMQ, Pulsar, and Android are a plus.

What we use to make our dish (Our Tech Stack)

• A core of Java & Kotlin based backend services.
• React SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook.
• Android app built in Java & Kotlin running in the restaurant.
• PostgreSQL and DynamoDB as core persistence.
• Pulsar, Camel and RabbitMQ for message-based integrations.
• And many more technologies that help us build a top class platform.

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

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