Software Engineer II-Full Stack

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy.

You’ll be a key contributor on the Payments Pricing team as we scale our platform to meet our customer’s future needs with innovative products and flexible pricing options. As an integrated payment processor, Toast processes billions of dollars annually, and ensures that money moves accurately and promptly to a restaurant’s bank account. You’ll collaborate closely with the team to build reliable, scalable, and trustworthy features as well as  working on the cutting edge of emerging real-time payment technologies.

 

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

• Work on the team that builds Toast’s payments processing platform.
• Collaborate on our new innovative pricing platform for restaurant credit card payments, seamlessly processing millions of financial transactions daily
• Learn & gain experience at every stage – solution design, estimation, coding, code review, testing, debugging, integrating, documenting, and maintaining.
• Follow best practices – quality integration, continuous delivery, automated testing, security reviews, end-to-end testing, performance testing
• Ensure that all work is delivered with quality and is monitored and supported in production

 

What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

• Knowledge of Kotlin, Java or another object-oriented language
• Hands-on experience with modern frontend frameworks such as React 
• Eager to learn about new technologies and new ways of working
• Aptitude for tackling complex and ambiguous problems with guidance of other engineers
• Enjoys building well-engineered, reliable, and scalable software as part of a team
• Driven by real-world customer impact

Special Sauce* (Nice to Haves)

• Interest in testing and quality best practices
• Has worked previously with AWS technologies like DynamoDB and ECS
• Proficient with AI tooling such as Claude, Cursor, and MCP servers
• Prior experience in Fintech

What we use to make our dish (Our Tech Stack)

• A core of Java & Kotlin based backend services.
• Dynamodb as core persistence.
• Apache Pulsar for message-based integrations.
• Apache Camel for message routing, transformation etc.
• And many more technologies that help us build a top class platform.

 

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AI at Toast

At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture.

Our Total Rewards Philosophy 
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.