Staff Software Engineer, Orders
Toast · Remote, US
About this role
**Toast — Staff Software Engineer, Orders** Toast builds technology that helps restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world—supporting how business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy. On the **Orders POS Team**, our mission is to deliver a state-of-the-art platform for processing and synchronizing order changes—enabling Toast to build complex, customizable workflows for customers. As a **Staff Software Engineer** on this team, you’ll design and implement new features, evolve architecture and tooling for efficient, high-quality delivery, and collaborate across many Toast R&D teams to bring high-visibility product experiences to life—processing **1B+ order changes per week** across **200K+ customers** quickly and accurately. --- ### Responsibilities - Lead the design and delivery of significant capabilities on Toast’s Orders platform spanning multiple teams (cloud to point of sale) - Collaborate with Design, Product, QA, and Engineering to build robust, scalable software within Toast’s POS applications - Drive architectural decisions for correctness, performance, and scale; author and review technical designs - Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementations meet requirements - Align the technical vision and roadmap for the Orders platform with Toast’s strategy - Serve as a domain expert for order processing and synchronization; partner with teams building on top of Orders - Advocate for best coding practices to raise the bar for you, your team, and the company - Mentor and provide technical guidance to raise the engineering bar across the team and broader Orders organization --- ### Requirements - **8+ years** of experience with Object Oriented Languages such as **Java** or **Kotlin** - Proven track record delivering significant platform capabilities across multiple teams in large engineering organizations - Mix of mobile and backend development experience, focused on distributed systems problems at high scale in large codebases - Deep understanding of automated testing, quality, and SDLC best practices; history of shipping reliable apps, microservices, and libraries to production - Experience delivering high-quality, reliable apps or libraries to production - Expertise with modern API technologies (e.g., **REST**, **GraphQL**), including schema design, evolution, and versioning across many consumers - Experience owning business-critical services in production (incident response + long-term reliability improvements) - Excellent cross-team communication on complex technical topics - Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., **Claude**, **Cursor**, **MCP servers**) - Passion for technology and continuous learning --- ### AI at Toast Toast values learning and building with AI tools to improve speed, independence, and quality across disciplines (Engineering, Product, Sales, Support). The people who thrive here embrace change and use new tools to build more for customers. --- ### Total Rewards / Pay Transparency (US) Base salary range by zone: - **Zone A:** $193,000 — $309,000 USD - **Zone B:** $168,000 — $269,000 USD - **Zone C:** $151,000 — $242,000 USD --- ### Hiring Process Notes - Toast uses AI tools to support recruiters/interviewers (e.g., note-taking, summarization, interview documentation). - Hiring decisions are made by people. - Please complete interviews/assessments on your own **without real-time AI tools, re
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