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 170,000 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 designing and building APIs and frameworks that other teams depend: on - platform thinking, not just feature delivery
Experience with GraphQL and REST API design
Comfortable working on AI-native features and cross-team integrations: this work spans multiple systems and requires collaboration as much as execution
The ability to take a complex business problem, understand what the user: actually needs, and build something that solves it cleanly
You use AI tooling as a genuine part of your workflow, not an afterthought
What they're looking for
- You care about the people using what you build: not just whether it works, but whether it's useful
- Experience working with large datasets and query engines (OpenSearch or similar)
- Familiarity with data pipelines or event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pulsar, or similar)
- Frontend experience in React or TypeScript: enough to contribute across the stack when needed