Software Engineer II, Payments
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’re not your traditional tech company and we don’t aim to be. Going against the grain is in our DNA. Building a revolutionary product begins with revolutionary thinking. That’s why we value diversity of background and lived experience. Together, we empower restaurants of all sizes to build great teams, increase revenue, improve operations, and delight their guests. We pair our deep understanding of the restaurant industry with powerful cloud based software and restaurant-grade hardware to deliver an intuitive all-in-one platform. Join us on our mission to empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.
Bready* to make a change?
Fintech at Toast operates one of the most critical portions of the Toast infrastructure: processing payments on behalf of our restaurants and ensuring that restaurants are paid in a timely manner. Payment processing is a key source of Toast’s revenue and also the lifeblood of our customers; we process millions of dollars in transactions per day.
We are seeking a Software Engineer II to join our Payments team to build out our unified payment processing solution. This platform offers a single, integrated service for payment acceptance across various channels and supports a configurable enterprise approach. It is designed to allow a build-once, available-to-all strategy for both existing and emerging payment methods. The successful candidate will contribute to the development of services providing supporting and core functionality within and around this payment processing solution.
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
- Design, build, and deliver features for Toast’s payments products
- Develop and implement automated test suite to ensure the code shipped to our customers meets the highest quality standards
- Roll* features out to customers, including monitoring for success
- Collaborate with UX and PM on the definition and design of features
- Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast
- Work with experienced engineers to deliver design and code review
Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)
- 2+ years of experience in designing and implementing robust backend services (preferably using Kotlin)
- Proven ability to develop scalable and secure APIs that integrate with various internal/external systems
- Knowledge of best practices in API lifecycle management, including versioning, documentation, and deprecation strategies
- Demonstrated experience with microservices architecture and containerization technologies for enhanced scalability and maintainability
- Demonstrated proficiency with DynamoDB or PostgreSQL
Special Sauce (*Nice to Haves)
- Proficiency in Kotlin-specific frameworks and libraries for building efficient backend solutions
- Experience with modern data architectures (OLAP, ETL/ELT, streaming data)
- Experience designing single-page applications with React
- Experience using Snowflake
- Familiarity with event- and domain-driven design (CQRS)
- Familiarity with PCI-DSS
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
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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.