Senior Software Engineer, Toast Tables

Bready* to make a change?

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. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Toast Tables team.

Toast Tables is a fast-growing, fully integrated waitlist and reservations platform that allows restaurants to generate and manage demand. It ties in with many of Toast’s other systems so that restaurants can bring a magical, fully digital, end-to-end experience to guests.

Who We Are

The Toast Tables team at Toast is all about creating exceptional reservations experiences for restaurants and their guests. We’re product-obsessed, focused on innovation, and committed to building scalable, reliable solutions that are used by millions of restaurant-goers every day. If you’re ready to make an impact on a massive scale, this is the place for you.

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join our Toast Tables team, who has the ability and drive to make an impact, not only on their own but by also enabling those around them to succeed. Partnering with stakeholders, product managers, product designers, and other engineers, you will be part of a team developing best-in-class solutions that create a unified, seamless experience that meets our standard for customer delight, ease of use, security, and scalability.

What You'll Do:

• Be a part of team working collaboratively with UX, PM, QA and other engineers building web applications using modern web technologies 
• Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for customers within a collaborative, supportive environment.
• Ship code that directly impacts and drives Toast’s growth.
• Contribute to new product features from the ground up, ensuring innovation and technical excellence.
• Advocate for best coding practices, raising the bar for yourself, your team, and the company.
• Partner with experienced engineers in design and code reviews to maintain high standards.
• Monitor feature rollouts to ensure customer success, iterating and improving when necessary.
• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems critical to our customers’ success.
• Tackle scaling challenges and implement robust solutions.
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks and optimize for better performance.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members.

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• 5+ years of experience with Java, Kotlin, or similar object-oriented languages.
• Proficient in modern web technologies and UI frameworks (e.g., React, Javascript , TypeScript, REST, GraphQL) with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Experienced with databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB) including schema design and optimization.
• In-depth understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and enterprise messaging.
• Familiar with asynchronous communication tools (e.g., Pulsar, JMS, Kafka).
• Proven track record of delivering reliable services to production.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
• A passion for technology and continuous learning.
• Enthusiasm for solving impactful challenges and writing clean, scalable code.
• A focus on both personal and team growth, balancing task completion with platform stability.
• The capacity to tackle complex and ambiguous problems, communicate clearly with others to solve the problem, and share knowledge to help the whole team succeed
• Exposure to distributed systems is a plus
• Enjoys building well-engineered, usable and accessible systems
• Experience working in a team with Agile/Scrum methodology

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 https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.

*Bread puns encouraged but not required