"I came to Toast to work on a product that people use everyday and it makes a big difference in their lives. I can walk into my favorite restaurant and see people interacting with things that I helped build and I love that. On top of that, I work with great people and on really challenging technical problems; I love it here!" - Brook Stevens, Engineering

Toast is a rapidly growing startup building the first all-in-one restaurant management software platform. Toast’s platform helps restaurants operate more efficiently and connect with their customer base in new and innovative ways. We have multiple web applications that serve different classes of users ranging from consumers using our online-ordering platform, to restaurant general managers doing back-of-house administration, to Toast internal tools for support, services and engineering. This is good for the guest experience and good for the restaurant! We serve cafes, restaurants, bars and nightclubs in all 50 states. We move fast and thus have lots of opportunities for career growth. If you’re passionate about your work and want to be in a fun and growing industry, join us!

Toast is looking for an experienced engineer who can help us grow and scale a modern front-end stack while contributing to the development of features and infrastructure. You will be working on software that is used every day by restaurants to power their businesses; this includes use by restaurant owners, staff and sometimes even restaurant guests. Toast is looking for a front end engineer to help build modern, intuitive UIs that give customers a delightful first experience with Toast, and drive our front end architecture and patterns forward. This role is on our business operations automation team; they work on tools for internal stakeholders in business operations and accounting, who are the best clients you could work for! Get the satisfaction of helping your neighbor while also creating educational, easy-to-use tools for our customers to be able to get themselves up and running with Toast. We are adding 100’s of new locations every month and want to make switching to Toast a seamless experience for restaurant owners of all experience levels!

Some projects we’ve been working on recently, include:

• Building out an Angular 4 pattern library
• Discount administration with rules and triggers
• Streamlined our internal node module build system
• Auto-publish and auto-release front end modules

As a Front End Engineer on the BizOps team, you will:

• Write code that ships to production
• Be part of a team working with UX, PM, QA and other engineers building web applications
• Define best practices and help choose technologies to evolve our current front-end stack while writing world-class applications
• Mentor other engineers to be effective on the front-end stack

If you’re someone that:

• Wants to work on systems that help real businesses grow
• Enjoys building well-engineered, usable/accessible systems
• Understands modern web standards and technologies (ES6, HTML5, React, Angular for example), and can apply them to build fully responsive webpages, beyond pixel-perfect versions of comps
• Is open to the challenge of evolving legacy code (e.g., jQuery) to meet the team’s current standards
• Communicates clearly up, down and across teams
• Balances getting things done with making things perfect
• Skilled at getting unblocked
• Takes pride in mentoring other developers
• Loves working with a team of awesome, collaborative co-workers
• Likes to get involved in deciding what gets built to solve for the customer and the company

We’d love to talk!

Our Tech Stack

Toast’s 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. Toast stores data in a set of sharded Postgres databases and utilizes Apache Spark for large scale data workloads including query and batch processing. The front-end is built primarily using Angular and ES6. The main Toast POS application is an Android application written in Java and Kotlin. For data between tablets and our cloud platform we operate RabbitMQ clusters as well as direct tablet communication to the back end.