Description
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.
We are hiring for the 'International Payments' team - the driving force behind Toast's global expansion. As a Principal Software Engineer, you will spearhead technical strategy and architect scalable designs for Toast’s largest restaurant brands.
Responsibilities
- Gain deep expertise in Toast’s payments ecosystem to enable reliable, seamless payment acceptance and processing across our fintech portfolio.
- Architect resilient, high-scale, mission-critical payment platform components.
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features across Toast’s International line-of-products.
- Lead complex initiatives that would span multiple teams & systems.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization - including PMs, SEs, QA, and UX - to help your teams get stuff done and deliver solutions that maximize value.
- Drive high-quality team output and ensure that the team makes solid technical decisions.
- Serve as a steward of an exceptional culture, encompassing both technical excellence and people‑centric values.
- Champion best practices for SDLC & CICD life-cycles.
- Champion the use of AI tools and practices to accelerate development, improve team velocity, and pioneer new ways of building - setting the bar for what it means to be an AI-first engineering organization.
- Mentor & coach engineers within the Fintech organisation.
- Hire and develop new team members, helping build a diverse team that wins together.
Requirements
- Strong technologist with 12+ years experience defining and implementing high scale SaaS solutions.
- Have strong understanding & hands-on experience of building fault-tolerant, highly-scalable & secure distributed systems.
- Proficiency with sql/nosql databases, strong understanding of distributed datastores and knowledge of when to use what.
- Strong foundations in data structures & algorithms.
- Strong interpersonal skills and a proven track record of building partnerships across engineering, product, customer success, and other stakeholders.
- Experience shipping iterative value using agile or lean software delivery methods.
- Experience of tackling complex and ambiguous problems, communicate clearly with others to solve the problem, and share knowledge to help the whole team succeed.
- Experience building payments & Fintech products, with at least 10+ years in the payments industry.
Tech Stack
- Backend services which follow a microservice architecture written using Kotlin, Java and DropWizard.
- Event driven messaging & streaming using Apache Pulsar & RabbitMQ.
- Apache Camel for implementing Enterprise Integration Pattern.
- React & ES6 based Frontend SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook.
- DynamoDb & Postgres as core persistence data-storage layers.
- Datadog & Sentry for system and application metric and monitoring.
- Splunk for log aggregation.
- FireHydrant for alerting.