Senior Software Engineer

Toast is scaling rapidly and with that growth comes an exciting new opportunity to join our new organization in Bangalore. Toast is looking for a Senior Software engineer to join our team where we are building the next generation of software solutions for our restaurants. We want to build a one stop shop for restaurants to make it easier, faster, and more enjoyable to manage a successful restaurant. You will enable restaurants to access data, draw meaningful insights, and take data-driven actions by leading the team to develop the best-in-class solution.

As a Full Stack Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will:

• Bring your domain and general experience to design, build and launch features/improvements on our platform
• Be involved in complex, high impact projects that may span multiple teams
• Champion best practices for development, deployment and quality life-cycles

What Youll Do:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, product managers, designers) to build features for Enterprise Reporting and Analytics and take full ownership of key components.
• 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.

What You ll Need:

• 6+ 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.