Now, more than ever, the Toast team is committed to our customers. We’re taking steps to help restaurants navigate these unprecedented times with technology, resources, and community. Our focus is on building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love. And 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. 

The Payments teams in Fintech at Toast operate 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’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our team and help evolve our products.

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

As a Software Engineer on our team, you will:

• Design, build and maintain highly resilient, flexible and scalable architecture
• Review code to ensure technical implementation meets functional requirements
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations
• Scale our systems to handle increased volume as our business grows

Do you have the right ingredients*?

• Growth mindset with an emphasis on learning and self/team-improvement
• Respectful, empathetic, and humble
• Focused on getting the right things done

We are hiring individuals with a wide range of experience so if you have more or less than these exact requirements, please still apply!

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. Toast employs a Micro Frontend architecture using individually deployed single-page applications across our web experience. Toast is building apps on a foundation of React, Apollo (GraphQL) and Tailwind with react-testing-library and Webpack for testing & bundling respectively. 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

*Bread puns encouraged but not required