Staff Software Engineer, Finance Automation
Toast · Remote, US
About this role
**Toast — Staff Software Engineer (Finance Automation)** 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 **hands-on Staff Software Engineer** to join the **Finance AI & Automation** team within the **Office of the CFO**. In this role, you’ll transform working AI prototypes into **enterprise-grade backend microservices, data pipelines, and internal tools** that eliminate manual friction across the finance stack. You’ll sit on a central Engineering team and bridge the gap between **rapid AI innovation** and **robust systems architecture**. While your core mastery is **distributed backend systems** and **event-driven integrations**, you’ll also own **lightweight frontend UI surfaces** and **operator tools** so Finance teams can interact with automations seamlessly. --- ## Responsibilities - **Hands-on Execution & Leadership:** Spend most of your time architecting, coding, and operating high-performance backend services using **Kotlin** and **AWS**. - **Productionize AI Workflows:** Turn agentic prototypes into scalable, monitored, permissioned microservices with **audit trails** and **automated error handling**. - **End-to-End Internal Tooling:** Build pragmatic full-stack operator tools—from backend APIs and pipelines to lightweight UI surfaces used daily by collections analysts and revenue accountants. - **Integration & Systems Architecture:** Design resilient integrations across billing platforms, ERP systems, Salesforce, data warehouses, and internal Toast services using enterprise integration patterns. - **Design for Enterprise Controls:** Engineer with **SOX scope**, **PCI boundaries**, and **data access requirements** in partnership with Security, Compliance, and Audit. - **Technical Ownership & Strategic Handoffs:** Own end-to-end technical strategy and build sequencing; recognize when fixes belong in core Toast platforms and drive clean handoffs. --- ## Requirements - **Backend-focused with pragmatic full-stack reach:** Proven track record as a **Staff (or senior-level lead) engineer** with deep expertise in distributed backend systems, plus the ability to ship UI/admin surfaces when needed. - **Production Kotlin & AWS:** Advanced hands-on experience shipping **Kotlin (or strong JVM equivalent)** services on **AWS**, with cloud-native backend patterns. - **Applied AI & systems fluency:** Experience productionizing **LLM frameworks** and **agentic architectures** (tool use, retrieval/RAG, evals, context management), with strong judgment on when to use an AI agent vs. traditional backend/cron. - **Event-driven & integration architecture:** Experience with enterprise integration frameworks, message brokers, and distributed data stores—specifically **Apache Camel**, **Apache Pulsar**, **DynamoDB**, and **Dropwizard** (or equivalents). - **Data systems depth:** Strong instincts across **SQL**, warehouse modeling, pipeline design, and managing data flow/consistency across relational and NoSQL. - **Pragmatic technical strategy & communication:** Balance immediate automation impact with long-term platform scalability; exceptional technical writing for executive stakeholders. --- ## Nice to Haves - Experience in **fintech**, **revenue systems**, automated reconciliation, or strict **SOX/PCI** control environments. - Experience building internal platforms, admin dashboards,
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