Software Engineer

Toast is driven by building a platform that helps our customers adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love. From independent operators to global enterprise chains with thousands of locations, Toast powers the full guest and operator experience - point of sale, kitchen display, online ordering, analytics, and beyond. 

International expansion is a critical growth engine for Toast's future. Outside the US, we currently operate in Canada, UK, Ireland, and Australia and are actively growing our product platform in these markets. As we gain market share, we are increasing our up-market product investment into Mid-Market (MM). Our goal is to be able to win and retain larger and more complex restaurant and hospitality operators. 

As part of this team’s mission you will get close to customers to fully understand the nuances of each of their unique needs, to ensure your contributions are making a meaningful impact to their business. 

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

• Design, build and maintain high performing, flexible, and scalable solutions that help restaurants operate their business effectively
• Ship features end-to-end, from design through rollout, monitoring for success and iterating based on real-world use
• Be an awesome teammate who's all in on collaboration and collective success
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design and Engineering stakeholders
• Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team.

What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

• 3+ years of backend/full-stack experience, delivering products that drive impact
• Ability to read and integrate with frontend applications; showing curiosity to work across the stack when needed
• Excited about AI-assisted development and LLM-based agents (Claude Code or similar), and interested in pioneering new workflows with the team
• Effectively works with ambiguity, agile delivery, and shipping usable software incrementally
• Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild
• Strong on software development fundamentals, code quality, unit tests, clean code  and open to evolving your workflow with AI tooling
• Strong collaboration skills: you communicate clearly with engineers, product, and business stakeholders, and adapt technical detail to the audience
• Curiosity and a growth mindset: you seek feedback, embrace change, and want to grow toward broader ownership