Toast is driven by building the all-in-one restaurant platform that helps restaurants operate their business, increase sales, engage guests, and keep employees happy

Join the Toast API team, the focal point for API-driven development at Toast. TheToast API team facilitates communication amongst 100+ Toast teams by making it easy to manage, share and collaborate on APIs. We maintain and grow a platform and tools that ensure APIs at Toast are consistent, discoverable, and enable effective code generation. As a Software Engineer II, you will be crucial in maintaining and enhancing the infrastructure and tools used by hundreds of developers at Toast to create a best-in-class customer and guest experience. You'll work on developing new features that will enable other programmers to be more productive and effective in doing their jobs.

We seek a proactive and skilled Software Engineer with a strong background in APIs and Schema-driven development. In this role, you will work as part of a team of talented engineers and collaborate closely with product managers and internal users. Your primary responsibilities will include developing and testing the key components you own and contributing to their operation and monitoring. This position is ideal for someone with an eye toward systematic software development and is passionate about delivering high-quality software solutions that improve the work of other developers.

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

• Write clean, scalable, and maintainable code following Agile practices 
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve production issues as they arise
• Work with Product Managers to identify the most impactful problems to solve 
• Contribute to the design of internal tools 
• Engage in ongoing learning and contribute to increasing the team's technical expertise.

 

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• Experience with Kotlin/Java 
• Experience with one of the API standards: OpenAPI, gRPC or GraphQL
• Familiarity with developer tools: AWS, Docker, GitHub
• Experience building Backend API Services on a product-oriented team 
• Confidence to take on big challenges and humility to ask questions when necessary

 

Special Sauce* (Nice to Haves)

• Exposure to React/Typescript
• Understanding of CICD workflows 
• Experience with K8s, Gradle and Postgres

 

Our Spread* of Total RewardsWe 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), equity, and benefits.Pay Range$115,000—$184,000 USD

 

We are Toasters

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

At Toast our employees are our secret ingredient. When they are powered to succeed, Toast succeeds.

The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse industries. We embrace and are excited by this diversity, believing that only through authenticity, inclusivity, high standards of respect and trust, and leading with humility will we be able to achieve our goals.

Baking inclusive principles into our company and diversity into our design provides equitable opportunities for all and enhances our ability to be first in class in all aspects of our industry.

Bready* to make a change? 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.