The opportunity
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. Over 180,000 restaurant businesses run on Toast.
What you'll do
Strong backend engineering skills in Kotlin, Java, or another object-oriented: language, with solid instincts around testing and code quality
Experience working with large datasets, where correctness, freshness, and: query performance all matter at the same time
Comfort with document-based or columnar data stores (BigTable, DynamoDB or similar)
A strong interest in core search engineering e.g. ranking algorithms,: semantic search, natural language search etc
Ability to work across team boundaries and pick up context quickly: OLAP touches almost every product area at Toast, and the work can be as much collaboration as execution
The ability to break down a problem, understand what the consuming team: actually needs, and ship a clean solution. Our users are other engineers, and the ergonomics of the platform matter
What they're looking for
- Use AI tooling as a genuine part of your workflow, not an afterthought
- Experience designing platform APIs that other teams depend on: platform thinking, not just feature delivery
- Hands-on experience with OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or a similar query engine at scale
- Familiarity with data pipelines or event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pulsar, or similar)