Senior Software Engineer, Bengaluru, India

About the Job

Toast is building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: growing businesses they love. Our platform helps streamline operations, increase revenue, and deliver outstanding guest experiences by combining restaurant point of sale, team management, guest-facing technology, and award-winning customer support. As a Toaster, you'll be part of a team that takes on meaningful projects to shape the company's future. Join us as we empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.

Are you bready* for a change?

Toast is scaling rapidly and with that growth comes an exciting new opportunity to join our new organization in Bangalore. Toast is looking for a Senior Software engineer to join our team where we are building the next generation of software solutions for our restaurants.  We want to build a one stop shop for restaurants to make it easier, faster, and more enjoyable to manage a successful restaurant. You will enable restaurants to access data, draw meaningful insights, and take data-driven actions by leading the team to develop the best-in-class solution. 

As a  Full Stack Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will:

• Bring your domain and general experience to design, build and launch features/improvements on our platform
• Be involved in complex, high impact projects that may span multiple teams
• Champion best practices for development, deployment and quality life-cycles

What You'll Do:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (developers, product managers, designers) to build features for Enterprise Reporting and Analytics and take full ownership of key components.
• Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for customers within a collaborative, supportive environment.
• Ship code that directly impacts and drives Toast’s growth.
• Contribute to new product features from the ground up, ensuring innovation and technical excellence.
• Advocate for best coding practices, raising the bar for yourself, your team, and the company.
• Partner with experienced engineers in design and code reviews to maintain high standards.
• Monitor feature rollouts to ensure customer success, iterating and improving when necessary.
• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems critical to our customers’ success.
• Tackle scaling challenges and implement robust solutions.
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks and optimize for better performance.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members.

What You’ll Need:

• 6+ years of experience with Java, Kotlin, or similar object-oriented languages.
• Proficient in modern web technologies and UI frameworks (e.g., React, Javascript , TypeScript, REST, GraphQL) with 3+ years of relevant experience.
• Experienced with databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB) including schema design and optimization.
• In-depth understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and enterprise messaging.
• Familiar with asynchronous communication tools (e.g., Pulsar, JMS, Kafka).
• Proven track record of delivering reliable services to production.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
• A passion for technology and continuous learning.
• Enthusiasm for solving impactful challenges and writing clean, scalable code.
• A focus on both personal and team growth, balancing task completion with platform stability.

We welcome candidates with a wide range of experience, so if your background differs from what's listed here, please still apply!

Our 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. For data between tablets and our cloud platform we operate RabbitMQ clusters as well as direct tablet communication to the back end.