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Senior Software Engineer - e-commerce

Posted 12 Days Ago
Boston, MA
134K-214K Annually
Senior level
Boston, MA
134K-214K Annually
Senior level
Seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to develop eCommerce solutions, collaborate across teams, enhance system performance, and guide junior engineers.
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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.

Bready* to make a change?

Toast is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who is passionate about building robust, scalable and customer-centric systems. We are a team transforming the eCommerce platform and associated integration technologies.  In this role you will partner with other engineering teams as well as business systems teams on multiple initiatives to deliver a seamless experience for our customers, business operations, sales, and customer success teams. These collaborations play a critical role in how we engage and maintain high quality relationships with the restaurants we serve.

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

  • Translate requirements into solutions, hands-on contributions in designing and building key architectural components and integrations that make up our eCommerce Platform.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to get the job done and provide insights necessary to think beyond the status quo. 
  • Review code to ensure that technical implementation meets functional requirements, as well as our high standards for code quality and testing.
  • Ensure that our systems are performant, scalable, resilient and highly available
  • Collaborate with UX, PM, QA and Engineering to build best-in-class solutions in a complex and fast-moving environment
  • Champion best practices for development, deployment and quality life-cycles
  • Guide the growth & development of engineers with mentoring and training.

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

  • Minimum 5 years of experience in ecommerce infrastructure development, including hands-on experience with enterprise ecommerce platforms 
  • Deep understanding of ecommerce best practices, usability principles, and information architecture
  • Emphasis on back-end code but must be familiar with front-end concepts and development as well
  • Experience delivering high quality, reliable services to production using Java or Kotlin 
  • Strong testing discipline, writing unit and integration tests and believing in automation to maintain software quality.
  • Experience integrating with third party products and applications, including Salesforce, Netsuite and billing platforms.
  • Familiarity with NoSQL databases, preferably DynamoDB, Postgres
  • Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Lead by example, at times, working alongside the team in defining requirements, workflows, interaction, user journeys, process/screen flows, and wireframes

Bonus ingredients*

  • Familiarity with React or other modern Web UI technologies
  • Familiarity with Test Automation frameworks for backend services


Our Spread* of Total Rewards
We 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

$134,000$214,000 USD


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

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.

We Thrive Together

We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.

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 [email protected].

Top Skills

DynamoDB
Java
Kotlin
NoSQL
Postgres
React
HQ

Toast Boston, Massachusetts, USA Office

Toast’s headquarters is located in the heart of the Seaport District. Toasters are surrounded by art, culture, and delicious cuisine in one of the most bustling neighborhoods in Boston.

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