Senior Backend Engineer - High Availability Infrastructure
Senior Backend Engineer - High Availability Infrastructure
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Job Description
Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt take control and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.
Are you bready* for a change
We are looking for an experienced software engineer to play a critical role in further scaling and developing Toasts cloud platform and infrastructure. Toasts platform processes billions of requests per day from hundreds of internal services and hundreds of thousands of mobile devices; these numbers grow exponentially year over year as we add new restaurants and capabilities to the platform. Our team is responsible for developing secure observable highly available large-scale shared services and infrastructure.
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
- Architect design and deliver ultra-reliable high-performance services and infrastructure used by millions
- Uncover and resolve performance bottlenecks across infrastructure databases APIs web and mobile applications
- Define and enforce engineering best practices coding standards and architectural guidelines
- Collaborate closely with product team to influence features technical direction and long-term product vision
- 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.
Do you have the right ingredients* (Requirements)
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills with the ability to align and inspire cross-functional teams
- Expertise in asynchronous messaging event-driven architecture APIs and integration patterns
- Track record of delivering clean maintainable and resilient code that stands the test of time
- Proficiency in Java or Kotlin preferred (experience in other modern programming languages also valued)
- Hands-on experience building and operating complex mission-critical large-scale distributed systems in production
Tech Stack
Our team builds and operates on a modern cloud-native stack with heavy use of AWS developing services and shared libraries in Kotlin and Go backed by PostgreSQL and DynamoDB. Infrastructure is provisioned and managed with Terraform. We oversee Toasts sharded PostgreSQL databases drive the organizations use of Apache Pulsar to enable event-driven architecture at scale and provide developers with tools and services to easily schedule recurring jobs. Our systems also power customer engagement integrating with SMS and email providers to reliably deliver millions of messages per day.
AI at Toast
At Toast were Hungry to Build and Learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster more independently and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; its a core part of our culture.
Our Spread* of Total Rewards
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract retain and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at puns encouraged but not required
#LI-Remote
The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills and experience. In addition to base salary our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime bonus/commissions if eligible) benefits and equity (if eligible).
Diversity Equity and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success
At Toast our employees are our secret ingredientwhen they thrive we restaurant industry is one of the most diverse and we embrace that diversity with authenticity inclusivity respect and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.
We Thrive Together
We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally check out: today!
Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process please contact .
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
