Staff Software Engineer
Toast
Bangalore, indiaPosted 3 months ago
Skill Required
R & D : Engineering : PaymentsSoftware EngineerSoftware DeveloperSystem DesignNginxEngineeringObservabilityRabbitMQbuildingPostgreSQLAndroidwrittenTestNGKotlindesignReactSparkCloudJavaAPIsAWSAI
Role overview
Toast is a restaurant platform company looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join its Payments team in Bangalore. The role involves building end‑to‑end third‑party processors that manage millions of transactions for customers.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features
- Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers and partners
- Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast
- Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes
- Roll features out to customers and partners, including monitoring for success
- Collaborate with UX and PM on the definition and design of features
- Mentor and coach other engineers
Requirements
- A minimum of three year undergraduate degree in any related discipline
- 9-13 years experience building backend services and APIs
- Extensive experience working with an Object Oriented Language like Java or Kotlin, with a deep understanding of testing, quality, and best practices
- Experience shipping production services and balancing getting things done with platform stability and reliability
- Experience building backend services and APIs and scaling distributed systems
- Focused on delivering positive impact for Toast customers
- Enjoys working in a team environment with a shared code-base
- Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics
Nice to have
- Experience building android applications with kotlin is a plus
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits program that goes beyond earnings potential
- Hybrid work model fostering in‑person collaboration while valuing individual needs
- Access to AI tools across all disciplines to accelerate learning and delivery
- Flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs
- Accessibility accommodations for persons with disabilities
Additional details
- 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 React 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.
- AI at Toast: one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn, and we provide AI tools across all disciplines.
- How Toast Uses AI in its Hiring Process: AI tools support recruiters and interviewers with note‑taking, summarization and documentation, but hiring decisions are made by people.
- Our Approach to Hybrid Working: we embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in‑person collaboration while valuing individual needs, with region‑specific in‑office expectations.
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is baked into our recipe for success, emphasizing authenticity, inclusivity, respect and humility.
- Apply today statement: Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process and provides reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities via candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.
- For roles in the United States, it is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.