Description
Toast is looking for a Staff Software Engineer (Backend) to join the Partner Connect team in Bangalore. The successful candidate will play a role in evolving the architecture to support complex new features and best-in-class monitoring as the company scales.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with UX, PM, QA, and other engineers to build web applications using modern web technologies
- Design systems for automated, self-serve, and fast app development, including sandbox provisioning and a clean path to production
- Define best practices and help choose technologies to evolve the current tech stack while writing world-class applications
- Champion best practices such as quality integration and unit testing
- Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementations meet requirements
- Ensure that all work done by the team is delivered with quality and is appropriately monitored and supported in production
- Raise the technical bar through architecture, design review, and code review, and mentor engineers across levels as the team grows
- Use AI tools in your own workflow and help establish how the team uses them well, including how to critically evaluate what they produce
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience)
- 10+ years of experience building backend systems and APIs
- Proficient in Java, Kotlin or other object-oriented languages
- Experience designing platform APIs that other teams depend on
- In-depth understanding of AWS, microservices, distributed systems, and enterprise messaging
- The ability to break down a problem, understand what the consuming team actually needs, and ship a clean solution
- Proficient with traditional databases, comfort with document-based or columnar data stores a plus
- Prior experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems or microservices
Our Tech Stack:
- A core of Java & Kotlin based backend services
- React SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook
- OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, Dynamodb as core persistence
- Pulsar & Camel for message-based integrations
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation and benefits programs
- Leverage cutting-edge AI tools to enhance development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building
- Hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs