Senior Software Engineer

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Bengaluru, Bengaluru Urban, Karnataka, IND
In-Office
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Food • Information Technology • Software • Hospitality
We empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.
The Role
Build and maintain resilient, scalable backend services and REST APIs for Toast’s international payments platform. Lead complex cross-team projects, make technical decisions, collaborate with product, UX, QA, and engineering partners, improve SDLC and CI/CD practices, develop automated tests, monitor production rollouts, participate in code reviews, and mentor engineers. The role requires distributed systems expertise, database knowledge, cloud infrastructure experience, and proficiency in Java or Kotlin.
Summary Generated by Built In

Toast has grown to be a leading hospitality software company in the US and is now setting its sights on our next stages of growth.  As the business continues to grow, there is increased demand to enhance the enterprise level of support in the product. Toast customers who managed several restaurants a few years ago are now expanding their business and adding new locations. New enterprise customers are looking to leverage Toast technology to support the growth of their business in new ways. These exciting new opportunities will require Toast to bolster our product offerings

Are you bready* for a change?

We are hiring for the ‘International Payments’ team, that helps lead Toast in its journey for global expansion to different geographies & markets. This team helps fuel Toast’s expansion by developing  & supporting a strong payments foundation.

As a Senior-Software-Engineer on this  team, you would get to build, innovate and upscale the next generation of our software solutions, with a Global first mindset, working closely with UX/PM/QA and customers to deliver the most value that fits our customers market and culture. 

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

  • Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features across Toast’s Enterprise line-of-products.
  • Lead complex projects that may span multiple teams & systems.
  • Collaborate with PM, UX & QA, and other engineers, on the development of new features & products.
  • Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast.
  • Drive high-quality team output and ensure that the team makes solid technical decisions.
  • Collaborate with peer engineers, provide design feedback, and participate in code reviews.
  • Champion best practices for SDLC & CICD life-cycles.
  • Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes.
  • Roll* features out to customers, ensuring successful delivery and operation, including monitoring for success and/or failures.
  • Mentor & coach your peer engineers.

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

  • 5+ years experience building backend services and RESTFUL APIs.
  • Proficiency in Object Oriented Programming Languages such as Java, Kotlin etc. 
  • Have strong understanding & hands-on experience of building fault-tolerant, highly-scalable & secure distributed systems.
  • Proficiency with sql/nosql databases, strong understanding of distributed datastores and knowledge of when to use what.
  • Strong foundations in data structures & algorithms.
  • Passion for building great software products.
  • You demonstrate humility, empathy and respectfulness.
  • Deep understanding of testing, quality, and proficiency in SDLC  best practices.
  • Proficiency in testing applications & delivering high-quality, reliable apps to production.
  • Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics.
  • Experience working with Cloud Infrastructure (AWS or similar).

Special Sauce* (Nice to Haves)

  • Have knowledge and hands-on experience of building Android applications.

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

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

  • Android apps built using Kotlin & Java.
  • Backend services which follow a microservice architecture written using Kotlin, Java and DropWizard
  • Event driven messaging & streaming using Apache Pulsar & RabbitMQ.
  • Apache Camel for implementing Enterprise Integration Pattern.
  • React & ES6 based Frontend SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook.
  • DynamoDb & Postgres as core persistence data-storage layers.
  • Datadog & Sentry for system and application metric and monitoring. 
  • Splunk for log aggregation.
  • Fire-Hydrant for alerting.

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.

How Toast Uses AI in its Hiring Process

Throughout the hiring process, our goal is to get to know you. We use AI tools to support our recruiters and interviewers with tasks like note-taking, summarization, and documentation of interviews to ensure they can be fully focused on your conversation. All hiring decisions are made by people. We ask that you complete interviews and assessments on your own, without real-time AI tools, recording, or transcription bots, unless we tell you otherwise in advance. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring

Our Approach to Hybrid Working
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 hospitality community, regardless of location. Please visit the Locations page on our career site to learn more about our in-office expectations by region: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast

People Are the Secret Ingredient in Our Recipe for Success

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry brings together people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we value that same breadth at Toast. We strive to build a culture grounded in authenticity, respect, and humility, where every Toaster has a real opportunity to grow, contribute, and do their best work—raising the bar in delivering exceptional experiences for our customers and each other.

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].

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Skills Required

  • 5+ years of experience building backend services and RESTful APIs
  • Proficiency in object-oriented programming languages such as Java or Kotlin
  • Hands-on experience building fault-tolerant, highly scalable, and secure distributed systems
  • Proficiency with SQL and NoSQL databases, including distributed datastores
  • Strong foundations in data structures and algorithms
  • Understanding of testing, quality, and SDLC best practices
  • Experience testing applications and delivering reliable software to production
  • Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS
  • Knowledge and hands-on experience building Android applications

What the Team is Saying

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Toast Compensation & Benefits Highlights

  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible/unlimited PTO, paid company holidays, and a paid sabbatical after five years are highlighted as core parts of the package. Feedback suggests many employees value the flexibility to take time away when needed.
  • Parental & Family Support — Paid parental, family, and medical leave, plus fertility and family-forming support and subsidized backup care, feature prominently. Feedback suggests these offerings are a notable strength for employees with caregiving needs.
  • Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage alongside life and disability insurance anchor the package, with therapy and coaching also available. Feedback suggests the breadth of health coverage is a recurring positive.

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HQ: Boston, MA
5,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

Toast is the all-in-one platform built for restaurants of all sizes. Toast provides a single platform of software as a service (SaaS) products and financial technology solutions that give restaurants everything they need to run their business, including point of sale, payments, supplier management, digital ordering and delivery, marketing and loyalty, and team management. By serving as the restaurant operating system across dine-in, takeout, and delivery channels, Toast helps restaurants increase revenue, streamline operations and deliver amazing guest experiences.

Why Work With Us

Our recipe for an awesome workplace: One splash of friendship A dollop of impact A sprinkle of no hierarchy & A heavy spoonful of individuality Mix these ingredients in a fast-paced and hardworking environment. Best paired with a side of interesting people who always bring their whole selves to work. *100% Sunday scary free

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