# Senior Software Engineer - BE

**Company**: Toast
**Location**: Chennai
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Toast, you'll play a critical role in shaping the backend systems that power our platform.

## Responsibilities

As a Senior Backend Software Engineer at Toast, you will:

- Build new products and evolve Toast's existing products suite to meet global market needs

- Lead projects from discovery and development to roll out

- Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure backend services and APIs

- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, frontend engineers, and data teams, to deliver impactful solutions

- Lead efforts to enhance the performance and reliability of our systems, ensuring high availability and low latency

- Contribute to architectural decisions and mentor junior team members

- Implement best practices in software development, including testing, code reviews, and CI/CD processes

- Address complex technical challenges, such as third-party integrations, data synchronization, and large-scale distributed systems

- Stay updated on emerging backend technologies and advocate for their adoption where appropriate

## Requirements

- 6+ years of experience in backend development with a strong focus on scalable, distributed systems

- Minimum educational qualifications: Any UG

- Proficiency in one or more backend programming languages, such as Java, Kotlin

- Deep understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, and database design (SQL and NoSQL)

- Experience with cloud platforms preferably AWS and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes

- Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for tackling complex technical challenges

- Excellent communication skills with a collaborative and team-oriented mindset

- Knowledge of event-driven architectures and message brokers like Kafka or RabbitMQ

- Contributions to open-source projects or active involvement in technical communities

- Experience with mentoring and leading engineering initiatives

- Work mode - Hybrid (2 days a week in office)

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## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Kotlin
- RESTful APIs
- microservices architecture
- database design
- cloud platforms
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- event-driven architectures
- message brokers

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