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From the employer's careers site First seen 6 Nov 2026

Staff Software Engineer

Toast Bangalore, India Hybrid staff full-time

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Description

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 our Payments team in Bangalore. This team will be responsible for building end to end 3rd party processors responsible for managing millions of transactions for our customers.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features
  • Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers and partners
  • Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast
  • Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes
  • Roll out features to customers and partners, including monitoring for success
  • Collaborate with UX and PM on the definition and design of features
  • Mentor and coach other engineers

Requirements

  • A minimum of three year undergraduate degree in any related discipline
  • 9-13 years experience building backend services and APIs
  • Extensive experience working with an Object Oriented Language like Java or Kotlin, with a deep understanding of testing, quality, and best practices
  • Experience shipping production services and balancing getting things done with platform stability and reliability
  • Experience building backend services and APIs and scaling distributed systems
  • Experience building android applications with kotlin is a plus
  • Focused on delivering positive impact for Toast customers
  • Enjoys working in a team environment with a shared code-base
  • Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics

Tech Stack

Toast’s products run on a stack that ranges from guest and restaurant-facing Android tablets to backend services in Java to internal, guest-facing and restaurant-facing web apps. Our backend services follow a microservice architecture written using Java 8 and DropWizard; we use AWS extensively, ranging from S3 to RDS to Lambda. We have our own platform for dealing with user management, service elevations and robust load balancing. Toast stores data in a set of sharded Postgres databases and utilizes Apache Spark for large scale data workloads including query and batch processing. The front-end is built primarily using React and ES6. The main Toast POS application is an Android application written in Java and Kotlin.

Benefits

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.

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