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?

Restaurants are one of the many Small & Medium Business industries that have been ignored by big banks, making access to investment and working capital very difficult. Whether a restaurant is expanding, renovating, or simply dealing with unexpected equipment failures, owners have very few viable financial options to manage these investments & expenses. Over the course of 2020, access to capital has become even more important.

The vision of the Lending team at Toast is to redefine financial services by empowering restaurant owners with affordable lending and financial partnership. Today, our team owns our end-to-end loan origination platform that guides a user through the application, fund disbursement, and servicing experiences. We are exploring other options as well that include customer financing for purchasing Toast.  We’re looking for a Front-End Software Engineer to join our team to help us grow and develop these products.

About this roll*

• Implement, monitor, and maintain the front-end experience for all of our lending applications in collaboration with our product manager and product designer
• Follow best practices for testing front-end applications, including unit, integration and end-to-end testing
• Utilize and help refine cross-org patterns for UX, along with the libraries that implement them
• Review code to ensure technical implementation meets functional requirements

Do you have the right ingredients*?

• Hands-on experience building and shipping front-end applications built using modern web standards and technologies (e.g. HTML5, CSS, React, GraphQL)
• Desire to balance user experience principles with data to improve our product
• Growth mindset with an emphasis on learning and self/team-improvement
• Respectful, empathetic, and humble
• Focused on getting things done and customer success
• Enjoy working in a team environment with a shared code-base

* Bread puns encouraged but not required

Our Tech Stack

Our products run on a stack that ranges from guest and restaurant-facing Android tablets to backend services in Java to internal, guest-facing and restaurant-facing web apps. Our backend services follow a microservice architecture written using Java 8 and DropWizard; we use AWS extensively, ranging from S3 to RDS to Lambda. We have our own platform for dealing with user management, service elevations and robust load balancing. We store data in a set of sharded Postgres databases and utilize Apache Spark for large scale data workloads including query and batch processing. The web frontend is built using React, Angular, and ES6. Our main point of sale application is an Android application written in Java and Kotlin. For communication between tablets and our cloud platform, we utilize RabbitMQ clusters as well as direct API communication to our HTTP backend.