Staff Software Engineer- Drive Thru

This role is a hybrid role and does require 2 days in the office in Costa Mesa, CA.

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.

Are you bready* for a change?

Toast is looking for a Software engineer to join our enterprise drive-thru team. Toast currently serves hundreds of multi-unit brands, including Caribou Coffee, Choice Hotels, Craveworthy Brands, WaBa Grill, Nothing Bundt Cakes, Papa Gino's & D'Angelo, Costa Vida Fresh Mexican Grill, and The Human Bean, among others. A best-in-class drive thru solution will open up a lot of future growth. You will get to work across the entire Toast platform, including our scalable backend, customer-facing web apps, and everything else in between. As a member of the drive-thru team, you will help ensure that our products are being built to meet the new and expanding needs of these customers. You can read more on our Toast for Enterprise Page.

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

In this role, you'll get to work on a wide variety of projects, using your technical chops to influence not just the code but also product and business strategies. This is a golden opportunity for a hands-on, entrepreneurial engineer who thrives in a modern tech stack environment and loves solving real-world problems through technology. You’ll run experiments, iterate quickly, and have a strong voice in shaping the future of online ordering here at Toast.  Here’s what you’ll be doing:

• Design, scope, and implement cutting-edge solutions using a mix of technologies
• Enhance the platform to boost performance, usability, and scalability
• Collaborate closely with Design and Product stakeholders to ensure we are building the right solutions to the right problems
• Identify high-impact opportunities with your team and turn them into reality
• Be an awesome teammate who’s all in on collaboration and collective success
• Work across teams to ensure that every part of our product ecosystem works seamlessly together to deliver the best possible experience for our customers

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Qualities & Essential Skills)

• 8+ years of experience developing full-stack web applications
• Proficient in backend technologies like Node.js and Java/Kotlin
• Skilled with frontend frameworks like React and CSS frameworks like Tailwind or Bootstrap
• Experienced in building on AWS, with tools like Docker and Git
• Comfortable turning high-fidelity UX designs from Figma into reality
• Passionate about writing testable code, with experience in API design and unit/integration testing
• Thrive in a collaborative, team-based environment where you ship features together
• Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild
• Embrace the agile mindset – ship quickly, iterate, and refine

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

• Android apps built using Kotlin & Java.
• Backend services that 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 metrics and monitoring. 
• Splunk for log aggregation.
• FireHydrant for alerting.

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