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.
Join the Toast API Platform team, the focal point for API-driven development at Toast. The Toast API Platform team facilitates communication amongst 100+ Toast teams by making it easy to manage, share and collaborate on APIs. We maintain and grow a platform and tools that ensure that APIs at Toast are consistent, discoverable, and enable effective code generation. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be crucial in maintaining and enhancing the infrastructure and tools used by hundreds of developers at Toast to create a best-in-class customer and guest experience. You'll work on developing new features that will enable other programmers to be more productive and effective in doing their jobs.
We seek a proactive and skilled Software Engineer with a strong background in APIs and Schema-driven development. In this role, you will work as part of a team of talented engineers and collaborate closely with product managers and internal users. You will design, develop, and maintain schema-first tooling, including server and client code generation, API registry, and linting. You’ll also contribute to key developer platform components like service templates, the internal portal, GraphQL persisted queries, and managing service configuration in our clusters. This position is ideal for someone with an eye toward systematic software development and is passionate about delivering high-quality software solutions that improve the work of other developers.
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
- Lead complex projects that impact developers across Toast
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to peers
- Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve production issues as they arise
- Participate in architectural discussions and influence the technical roadmap
- Advocate for best coding practices to raise the bar for you, your team, and the company
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members
Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)
- Demonstrated leadership driving significant projects to completion from design to rollout
- Expertise with Kotlin/Java
- Expertise with one of the API standards: OpenAPI, gRPC or GraphQL
- Familiarity with developer tools: AWS, Docker, GitHub
- Experience building Backend API Services on a product-oriented team
- Confidence to take on big challenges and humility to ask questions when necessary
Special Sauce* (Nice to Haves)
- Experience integrating AI into developer tools
- Exposure to React/Typescript
- Understanding of CICD workflows
- Experience with K8s, Gradle and Postgres
- Experience with Backstage Developer Portal
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
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.
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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.
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