Who We Are
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.
Are you bready* for a change? (team info)
Our Catering & Events team is expanding Toast’s reach into an exciting and growing space: helping restaurants, caterers and venues manage everything from office catering to large-scale events. Whether it’s a wedding, a corporate lunch, or a holiday catering rush, our software powers the experiences that matter most to our customers and their guests.
As a Software Engineer II on the Catering & Events team, you’ll help build and evolve a product that enables customers to manage complex catering and event workflows with ease. You’ll work across the stack to deliver high-impact features that reach real customers quickly. This is a highly collaborative role where you’ll partner closely with product managers and designers to bring ideas to life.
You’ll thrive here if you enjoy moving fast, learning from customers, and iterating on products in a tight feedback loop.
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
- Build and ship new features across our full-stack platform
- Improve and scale existing systems to support a growing and evolving customer base
- Collaborate closely with Product and Design to deliver intuitive, high-quality user experiences
- Contribute to architectural and technical decisions within a modern microservices environment
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code
- Participate in code reviews and provide thoughtful feedback to peers
- Learn from and collaborate with senior engineers to grow your technical expertise
- Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and
Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)
- Experience building web applications, with the ability to contribute across the stack (frontend and/or backend)
- Familiarity with modern backend technologies (Java or Kotlin strongly preferred)
- Experience or interest in frontend development using React and JavaScript
- Understanding of distributed systems or microservice-based architectures
- Ability to work independently on scoped problems while collaborating with a broader team
- Strong problem-solving skills and a product-oriented mindset
- Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild
- Enthusiastic to employ AI-based tooling to expand impact and improve work.
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.
The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills, experience, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible), equity, and benefits. You can learn more about how we align pay with local labor markets in our Geographic Pay Zone Philosophy.
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.
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.
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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