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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.
We’re looking for a Software Engineer II to join in building the Scheduling product as part of Toast’s Team Management Suite for restaurant employers. You’ll play an important role in the design, development, and delivery of scalable software solutions that enable restaurant owners to build an optimal labor plan that balances interests in profitability, employee’s desire for predictability and flexibility, and guest satisfaction.
A day in the life (Responsibilities):
- Flex your full-stack development muscles with challenging end-to-end tasks in a supportive, collaborative team environment
- Participate in designing, estimating, implementing, testing, and debugging end-to-end solutions
- Ship code that has a massive impact on the growth of Toast
- Learn and champion best practices for development, deployment, and quality life-cycles
- Actively contribute to product design and feature selection discussions
- Participate in code reviews to ensure technical implementations meet functional requirements
What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)
- Strong foundation in Java, Kotlin or other object-oriented language(s)
- Experience with modern web standards and technologies (e.g. React, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL)
- A proven track record of building partnerships across engineering, product, customer success, and other stakeholders.
- Experience maintaining a high bar for quality, and guiding teams to hold a high bar for the technical quality of their deliverables.
- Strong customer empathy and a drive to make their lives better through a thoughtful user experience, robust technical solutions, and continuous product improvement.
- Passionate about technology and learning new things
- Desire to make continuous improvements to teams and technology
- You are not afraid to tackle big problems and ask insightful questions.
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.
#LI-HYBRID
#BI-Hybrid
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. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring
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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.
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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. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
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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.
We’re looking for an engineer to help build and scale Toast’s labor cost and timekeeping platforms - systems that directly influence labor spend for more than 166,000 restaurant locations. You’ll work on highly visible, mission-critical infrastructure supporting millions of employees and operators across Toast restaurants.
In this role, you’ll gain hands-on experience with large-scale, data-intensive systems. We’ve processed over a billion of shift records and are in the midst of an exciting architecture modernization to support rapid growth and faster development. We are operating at true scale, pushing the limits of our databases. If you’re excited to lay the technical foundation for the next generation of labor cost management—and to help restaurant operators save real money—we’d love to hear from you.
A day in the life (Responsibilities)
- Help shape our next-generation timekeeping systems that operate at massive scale, processing tens of millions of shift events every week.
- Build, run, and improve core backend systems alongside a collaborative, supportive team.
- Be a part of the organization with a strong focus on engineering culture and full end-to-end ownership.
- Participate across the full development lifecycle—design, estimation, implementation, testing, debugging, and deployment—while learning and applying best practices for building and operating reliable systems at scale.
- Ship code that directly impacts Toast’s growth and the day-to-day operations of restaurant teams
- Partner with product and design to influence what we build and how we build it
- Participate in thoughtful code reviews, both giving and receiving feedback
What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)
- Experience with one or more object-oriented programming languages (such as Java, Kotlin, or similar).
- Willingness to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system performance through logging and metrics
- Ability and motivation to learn quickly and apply knowledge to solve real problems
- A hunger to take on challenging projects and build systems that operate at massive scale.
Above all, we’re looking for a strong engineer with solid fundamentals.
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.
#LI-HYBRID
#BI-Hybrid
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. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring
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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.
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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. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Toast
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.
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale Toast’s labor cost and timekeeping platforms - systems that directly influence labor spend for more than 166,000 restaurant locations. You’ll work on highly visible, mission-critical infrastructure supporting millions of employees and operators across Toast restaurants.
In this role, you’ll gain hands-on experience with large-scale, data-intensive systems. We’ve processed over a billion shift records and are in the midst of an exciting architecture modernization to support rapid growth and faster development. We are operating at true scale, pushing the limits of our databases. If you’re excited to lay the technical foundation for the next generation of labor cost management—and to help restaurant operators save real money—we’d love to hear from you.
A day in the life (Responsibilities):
- Drive the evolution of our next-generation timekeeping platform, operating at significant scale and processing tens of millions of shift events each week
- Build, run, and improve core backend systems alongside a collaborative, supportive team.
- Take end-to-end ownership of systems, contributing to a strong engineering culture focused on quality, reliability, and long-term maintainability
- Lead work across the full development lifecycle—design, estimation, implementation, testing, debugging, and deployment—while learning and applying best practices for building and operating reliable systems at scale.
- Ship code that directly impacts Toast’s growth and the day-to-day operations of restaurant teams
- Partner with product and design to influence what we build and how we build it
- Contribute to and elevate team standards through thoughtful code reviews and technical discussions
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members
What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)
- 5+ years of back-end experience with one or more object-oriented programming languages (such as Java, Kotlin, or similar).
- Experience owning and operating production systems.
- A track record of tackling ambiguous, high-impact challenges and delivering scalable solutions
- Ability and motivation to learn quickly and apply knowledge to solve real problems
- A hunger to take on challenging projects and build systems that operate at massive scale.
Above all, we’re looking for a strong engineer with solid fundamentals.
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.
#LI-HYBRID
#BI-Hybrid
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. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring
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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.
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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. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Toast
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.
Your mission is to drive architecture, technical strategy, and implementation of AI agents for Toast's Team area which is part of the Fintech line of business. You will be one of the most senior technologists in line of business. The Team area is a mission-critical space on which our restaurants rely to manage their staff and optimize their labor. Beyond being on the forefront of agent development, your scope will also include enablement and leadership for how software is developed at Toast through adoption of bleeding edge spec driven development and other paradigms.
A day in the life (Responsibilities)
- Develop and drive an architectural vision to support the ambitious goals for agents and agent development
- Be an active participant and an authoritative technical voice in FinTech product strategy discussions
- Partner with the Team Management Director of Engineering and Sr. Director of Product to successfully deliver Team agent products from design to production
- Work closely with other Senior Principal Engineers to further the agent patterns and ecosystem across Toast as a whole
- Evolve an ever more efficient way of working through agents and spread it across Toast
- Work directly with the product manager for the Team Agent space, collaborating to drive vision
- Be hands on and actively participate in development on the Team Agent
- Mentor and develop technical leadership across Team, and Fintech
What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)
- 15+ years experience designing and building highly scalable, mission-critical distributed and fullstack software systems
- 10+ years experience building and operating SaaS products, ideally AWS hosted
- 1+ years experience using the latest in coding agents
- A strong desire to lean all in on agentic development practices
- Passion for building autonomous agents
- Demonstrated ability to drive technical architecture for a company or highly scalable line of products
- A desire to work not only with technologists but also product owners and business leaders
- Ability and desire to draw big lines and boxes on a whiteboard paired with the ability to dig in and understand the ebb and flow of what the code is doing under load
- Ability and desire to communicate and influence at the executive level
What will help you stand out (Nonessential Skills/Nice to Haves)
- Experience designing agentic products
- Experience building systems that leverage LLMs and other ML models
- Experience with enterprise integration using Apache Camel
- Experience architecting event-driven distributed systems using Apache Pulsar
- Experience defining test, build and deploy strategies
- Solid understanding of workforce management
- Solid understanding of restaurant operations
#LI-HYBRID
#BI-Hybrid
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. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring
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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.
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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. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Toast
Staff Software Engineer, Employee Lifecycle Management
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About Toast:
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.
Bready* to make a change?
Toast is a rapidly growing company that's revolutionizing how the restaurant industry does business by pairing technology with an extraordinary commitment to customer success. We help restaurants streamline operations, increase revenue, and deliver amazing guest experiences through our platform that combines restaurant point of sale, team management, guest-facing technology, and award-winning customer support. As a Toaster, you will be challenged to take on meaningful projects to help craft the company's future. Join us as we empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.
We’re looking for a Staff Software Developer to join our dynamic Employee Lifecycle Management team, which supports employees from the start to end of their journey with all Toast customers. You’ll play a key roll* in the design, development, and delivery of scalable software solutions that enable restaurant owners to to manage their employees throughout their lifecycle ensuring that they can pay wages and provide employment benefits to their staff.
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
- Lead fellow developers, product managers, and designers, to build amazing Employee management features with a goal of making it easier for customers, their employees, and other toast teams to interact with employees.
- Flex your full-stack development muscles with challenging end-to-end tasks in a supportive, collaborative team environment
- Participate in designing, estimating, implementing, testing, and debugging end-to-end solutions
- Mentor developers through code-pairing and detailed code, architecture, and project reviews
- Champion best practices for development, deployment and quality life cycles
- Actively contribute to product design and feature selection discussions
Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)
- Strong foundation in Java, Kotlin or other object oriented language(s)
- Experience with modern web standards and technologies (e.g. React, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL)
- A proven track record of building partnerships across engineering, product, customer success, and other stakeholders.
- Experience and interest in mentoring peers
- Experience maintaining a high bar for quality, and guiding teams to hold a high bar for the technical quality of their deliverables.
- Strong customer empathy and a drive to make their lives better through a thoughtful user experience, robust technical solutions, and continuous product improvement.
#LI-REMOTE
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.
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. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring
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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.
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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. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Toast
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.
We help restaurants streamline operations, increase revenue, and deliver amazing guest experiences through our platform that combines restaurant point of sale, team management, guest-facing technology, and award-winning customer support. As a Toaster, you will be challenged to take on meaningful projects to help craft the company's future. Join us as we empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.
We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join in building AI agents for Toast's Team area, which is part of the Fintech line of business. The Team area is a mission-critical space on which our restaurants rely to manage their staff and optimize their labor. You'll play a key roll* in the design, development, and delivery of autonomous agents that transform how restaurant owners manage their workforce, blending cutting-edge AI with practical restaurant operations.
A day in the life (Responsibilities)
- Be hands-on in developing and shipping Team Agent products that leverage LLMs and agentic frameworks
- Flex your full-stack development muscles with challenging end-to-end tasks in a supportive, collaborative team environment
- Partner with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to build autonomous agents that transform restaurant workforce management
- Participate in designing, estimating, implementing, testing, and debugging end-to-end agent solutions
- Adopt and advocate for bleeding-edge spec-driven development and agentic development practices
- Mentor developers through code-pairing and detailed code, architecture, and project reviews
- Champion best practices for agent development, deployment, and quality life cycles
- Actively contribute to product design and feature selection discussions for the Team Agent space
What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)
- Strong foundation in Java, Kotlin or other object oriented language(s)
- Experience with modern web standards and technologies (e.g. React, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL)
- Experience or strong interest in using coding agents and adopting agentic development practices
- Passion for building autonomous agents and working with LLMs
- A proven track record of building partnerships across engineering, product, customer success, and other stakeholders
- Experience and interest in mentoring peers
- Experience maintaining a high bar for quality, and guiding teams to hold a high bar for the technical quality of their deliverables.
- Strong customer empathy and a drive to make their lives better through a thoughtful user experience, robust technical solutions, and continuous product improvement
Special Sauce* (Nonessential Ingredients)
- Experience designing agentic products
- Experience building systems that leverage LLMs and other ML models
- Experience with event-driven distributed systems
- Solid understanding of workforce management
- Solid understanding of restaurant operations
#LI-HYBRID
#BI-Hybrid
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. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring
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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.
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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. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Toast
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.
We’re not your traditional tech company and we don’t aim to be. Going against the grain* is in our DNA. Building a revolutionary product begins with revolutionary thinking. That’s why we value diversity of background and lived experience. Together, we empower restaurants of all sizes to build great teams, increase revenue, improve operations, and delight their guests. We pair our deep understanding of the restaurant industry with powerful cloud based software and restaurant-grade hardware to deliver an intuitive all-in-one platform. Join us on our mission to empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.
We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Payroll and Team Management team, which builds the core infrastructure and applications that power Toast’s Team Management software for Toast restaurants. You’ll play a key roll* in the design, development, and delivery of scalable software solutions that enable restaurant owners to pay wages and provide employment benefits to their staff.
A day in the life (Responsibilities)
- Join a collaborative team of Design, Product, and other engineering members in developing robust and scalable full-stack software applications
- Own software development end-to-end from ideation to implementation, release, and measuring customer impact
- Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementation meet requirements
- Participate in architectural discussions and influence the technical roadmap
- Advocate for best coding practices to raise the bar for you, your team, and the company
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members
- 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 productivity across the team.
What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)
- 8+ years of back-end experience in Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented languages
- Proficient building production-grade software with the latest AI development tools
- Proficient with modern web standards and technologies (e.g. React, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL)
- Proficient with SQL and noSQL database technologies
- Experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems, and/or microservices
- Experience delivering high-quality, reliable services to production
- Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics
- Passionate about technology and learning new things
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. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring
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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.
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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. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Toast
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.
Toast is a rapidly growing company that's revolutionizing how the restaurant industry does business by pairing technology with an extraordinary commitment to customer success. We help restaurants streamline operations, increase revenue, and deliver amazing guest experiences through our platform that combines restaurant point of sale, team management, guest-facing technology, and award-winning customer support. As a Toaster, you will be challenged to take on meaningful projects to help craft the company's future. Join us as we empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.
We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join in building the Scheduling product as part of Toast’s Team Management Suite for restaurant employers. You’ll play a key roll* in the design, development, and delivery of scalable software solutions that enable restaurant owners to build an optimal labor plan that balances interests in profitability, employee’s desire for predictability and flexibility, and guest satisfaction.
A day in the life (Responsibilities)
- Lead fellow fellow developers, product managers, and designers, to build amazing Scheduling features with a goal of increasing our consumer footprint at Toast and employee engagement within restaurants
- Flex your full-stack development muscles with challenging end-to-end tasks in a supportive, collaborative team environment
- Participate in designing, estimating, implementing, testing, and debugging end-to-end solutions
- Mentor developers through code-pairing and detailed code, architecture, and project reviews
- Champion best practices for development, deployment and quality life cycles
- Actively contribute to product design and feature selection discussions
- 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 productivity across the team.
What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)
- 8+ years experience in Java, Kotlin or other object oriented language(s)
- Hands on experience with modern web standards and technologies (e.g. React, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL)
- A proven track record of building partnerships across engineering, product, customer success, and other stakeholders.
- Experience and interest in mentoring/leading peers
- Experience maintaining a high bar for quality, and guiding teams to hold a high bar for the technical quality of their deliverables.
- Strong customer empathy and a drive to make their lives better through a thoughtful user experience, robust technical solutions, and continuous product improvement.
**This role requires two days per week in our Dublin office**
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.
#LI-HYBRID #BI-Hybrid
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. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring
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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.
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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. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Toast
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.
We help restaurants streamline operations, increase revenue, and deliver amazing guest experiences through our platform that combines restaurant point of sale, team management, guest-facing technology, and award-winning customer support. As a Toaster, you will be challenged to take on meaningful projects to help craft the company's future. Join us as we empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.
We're looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join in building AI agents for Toast's Team area, which is part of the Fintech line of business. The Team area is a mission-critical space on which our restaurants rely to manage their staff and optimize their labor. You'll play a key roll* in the design, development, and delivery of autonomous agents that transform how restaurant owners manage their workforce, blending cutting-edge AI with practical restaurant operations.
A day in the life (Responsibilities)
- Be hands-on in developing and shipping Team Agent products that leverage LLMs and agentic frameworks
- Flex your full-stack development muscles with challenging end-to-end tasks in a supportive, collaborative team environment
- Partner with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to build autonomous agents that transform restaurant workforce management
- Participate in designing, estimating, implementing, testing, and debugging end-to-end agent solutions
- Adopt and advocate for bleeding-edge spec-driven development and agentic development practices
- Mentor developers through code-pairing and detailed code, architecture, and project reviews
- Champion best practices for agent development, deployment, and quality life cycles
- Actively contribute to product design and feature selection discussions for the Team Agent space
What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)
- Strong foundation in Java, Kotlin or other object oriented language(s)
- Experience with modern web standards and technologies (e.g. React, TypeScript, REST, GraphQL)
- Experience or strong interest in using coding agents and adopting agentic development practices
- Passion for building autonomous agents and working with LLMs
- A proven track record of building partnerships across engineering, product, customer success, and other stakeholders
- Experience and interest in mentoring peers
- Experience maintaining a high bar for quality, and guiding teams to hold a high bar for the technical quality of their deliverables.
- Strong customer empathy and a drive to make their lives better through a thoughtful user experience, robust technical solutions, and continuous product improvement
Special Sauce* (Nonessential Ingredients)
- Experience designing agentic products
- Experience building systems that leverage LLMs and other ML models
- Experience with event-driven distributed systems
- Solid understanding of workforce management
- Solid understanding of restaurant operations
#LI-HYBRID
#BI-Hybrid
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. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring
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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.
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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. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Toast