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 a rapidly growing company that’s revolutionizing the way the restaurant industry does business by pairing technology with an unrivaled commitment to customer success. We help restaurants streamline operations, increase revenue, and deliver amazing guest experiences through our platform that combines restaurant point of sale, guest-facing technology, and award-winning customer support. As a Toaster, you will be challenged to take on meaningful projects that will help shape the company's future. Join us as we empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Systems Engineering, the Staff Backend Engineer is a multidisciplinary role that designs, architects, develops, and maintains multi-platform integration solutions in support of Toast’s Business Systems initiatives. The Staff Systems Engineer is an adept and creative technologist and solutions provider who will act as a subject matter expert for the numerous applications within the Toast ecosystem and their use in the rapid and effective deployment of integrations for its growing portfolio of products.
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
- Implement and maintain new and legacy integrations across numerous platforms.
- Work as an individual contributor focusing on the Toast go-to-market team.
- Plan and execute the integration of new applications with existing systems and software.
- Plan and execute the integration of new application integration technology.
- Collaborate on standards and processes to support and facilitate integration projects and initiatives.
- Gather and analyze requirements from product managers to determine integration needs and assess dependencies and risk.
- Draft technical designs, engineering plans, testing plans, sequence diagrams, and other systems integration-related documents.
- Develop and automate application end-to-end or unit testing to ensure stability during continuous integration.
- Identify platform issues and craft technical resolutions and communication plans to remedy.
Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)
- 6+ years working on an Agile SCRUM or Kanban team
- 6+ years working with REST, XML and JSON
- 6+ years of experience delivering high quality, reliable services to production using Java, Kotlin or other object oriented language(s)
- 6+ years of experience working with Kotlin, JavaScript, jUnit, RUBY, SQL, PostgreSQL
- Strong understanding of data manipulation and distribution
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent version control, QA skills, and attention to detail
Bonus ingredients (a pinch of salt):
- Experience with Workato or a similar iPaaS
- Exposure to distributed systems, scaling challenges, SaaS, SQL, JS, & Pulsar is a plus.
- Experience with any of the following Enterprise Applications (Salesforce, Netsuite, Zuora Billing)
- Familiar with working in a test-driven development environment
Our Spread* of Total Rewards
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. 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.
*Bread puns encouraged but not required
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The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills and experience. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions, if eligible), benefits, and equity (if eligible).
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success
At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.
We Thrive Together
We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.
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Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected].
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