About the role
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 looking for a Staff Software engineer to lead our Enterprise Sports & Entertainment team. You will get to work across the entire Toast platform, including our POS, backend, and front end systems. As a member of the Enterprise Sports & Entertainment team, you will help deliver the most important features for our Sports & Entertainment and hospitality customers and directly impact Toast’s success.
A day in the life (Responsibilities)
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features across Toast’s Sports & Entertainment product offerings
- Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers
- Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast
- Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes
- Roll* features out to customers, including monitoring for success
- Partner closely with Design and Product on the definition and design of features
- Partner with cross-functional functions including Customer Success, Solutions, Sales, Care, and Onboarding to ensure technical deliverables align with enterprise customer expectations and long-term strategy
- Mentor and coach other engineers
- 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 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
- Experience building android applications with kotlin is a plus
- Experience building front end applications is a plus
- 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