Software Engineer II Platform Team â Backend

Are you ready to revolutionise the restaurant industry
Toast is transforming the way restaurants operate and grow pairing intuitive technology with relentless focus on customer success. We empower restaurants to streamline operations boost revenue and create standout guest experiences. Join us as we help our customers thrive through product innovation and data-driven decision-making.

Who We Are

Our mission is simple: to empower restaurants to thrive. We achieve this by empowering our developers as well. The Toast Platform Team (PLEX) plays a key role in enabling product teams to build and ship high-quality web experiences at scale.

We focus on the primary drivers that can impact the overall user experience while managing their business: navigation preferences and business profile. We ensure teams can quickly develop and ship their products into the Toast ecosystem while ensuring a consistent and seamless experience to every user in a way that best fits their needs preferences and Toast information architecture.

About this role* (Responsibilities)

Youll join a cross-functional team focused on delivering scalable user-centric platform experiences that power seamless navigation personalised preferences and cohesive profile-based experiences across the Toast ecosystem.

• Design and build scalable backend services and APIs that power core platform experiences;
• Contribute to projects that incorporate AI-powered insights and personalisation to improve user experience and conversion.
• Partnered with frontend design product and data science teams to validate design and develop ideas that balance user needs technical scalability and drive impact
• Help identify friction points and contribute to experiments that improve acquisition onboarding and retention.
• Learn and apply best practices in backend development testing and performance
  Participate in code reviews design discussions and retrospectives as an engaged team member
• 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*

• 2 years of professional experience with Java Kotlin or another object-oriented language
• Capacity to tackle complex and ambiguous problems communicate clearly with others to solve the problem and share knowledge to help the whole team succeed
• Enjoys building well-engineered reliable and scalable microservices
• Driven by real-world customer impact
• Experience working in a team with Agile/Scrum methodology focused on delivering reliable high-quality software
  
  

Bonus Ingredients

• Professional experience in component testing and E2E testing
• Experience with AWS technologies like DynamoDB and ECS
• Exposure to distributed systems SaaS SQL Apache Pulsar
• Experience working on a platform team
• Exposure to GraphQL
• Passion for helping small businesses thrive

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