Senior Software Engineer (Application Infrastructure)

• We are looking for an experienced software engineer to play a critical role in further scaling and developing Toast’s cloud platform and infrastructure
• Toast’s platform processes billions of requests per day from hundreds of internal services and hundreds of thousands of mobile devices; these numbers grow exponentially year over year as we add new restaurants and capabilities to the platform
• Our team is responsible for developing secure, observable, highly available, large-scale shared services and infrastructure
• Architect, design, and deliver ultra-reliable, high-performance services and infrastructure used by millions
• Uncover and resolve performance bottlenecks across infrastructure, databases, and APIs
• Define and enable adherence to engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural guidelines
• Collaborate closely with the Product team to influence features, technical direction, and long-term product vision
• Our team builds and operates on a modern, cloud-native stack with heavy use of AWS, developing services and shared libraries in Kotlin and Go backed by PostgreSQL and DynamoDB
• Infrastructure is provisioned and managed with Terraform
• We oversee Toast’s sharded PostgreSQL databases, own and drive the organization’s use of Apache Pulsar to enable event-driven architecture at scale, and provide developers with tools and services to easily schedule recurring jobs
• Our systems also power customer engagement, integrating with SMS and email providers to reliably deliver millions of messages per day

Benefits

• Peer and company recognition programs
• Unlimited Vacation
• Sabbatical opportunity after five years
• Professional Development Reimbursement Program
• Commitment to Employee Wellness through resources such as a quarterly Wellness Stipend
• Various peer and company recognition programs
• 401(k) and matching
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage
• Mental Health Benefits
• Subsidized backup childcare

• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with demonstrated ability to align and inspire cross-functional teams
• A demonstrated record of mentoring junior team members and enhancing the team’s effectiveness
• Hands-on experience building and operating complex, mission-critical, large-scale distributed systems in the Cloud
• Proficiency in Java or Kotlin preferred (experience in other modern programming languages also valued)
• Track record of delivering clean, maintainable, and resilient code that stands the test of time
• Expertise in asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, APIs, and integration patterns