Toast: Staff Software Engineer, Team Lead Payments Core
401 Park Drive
Boston, MA 02215

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Why be a Toaster?

"I love working at Toast because we put restaurants first, and empower them to focus on the best diner experience possible! - Martin Z, Software Engineer


Toast Payments

Toasts payment processing platform today supports tens of thousands of restaurants each day, processing billions of dollars annually. This is a business critical system with many complex parts that we need to evolve and extend in order to support new products and additional scale.

As a Team Lead for Payments Core you would be responsible for the success and impact of a small cross-functional team, and improving that team over time. We are looking for an experienced person to lead the team that is responsible for Toasts payment processing platform.

As a Team Lead at Toast you will:

  • Write code that is used for processing hundreds of thousands of payments per day.
  • Provide technical leadership and guidance to the team on how to build systems that solve current needs while being flexible to future changes.
  • Be a force multiplier for the individuals on your team
  • Work closely with other teams to ensure seamless integration with our existing systems and external partners.
  • Participate in code reviews to ensure implementations meet functional requirements.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and incident response
  • Guide the growth of two to four engineers, including mentoring, career development, and performance management.

Do you have the right ingredients?

  • Significant experience working in a SaaS environment with microservices
  • Significant experience with JVM languages such as Java, Kotlin
  • An understanding of distributed systems concepts
  • Experience with some of the following beneficial but not required:
    • Java web frameworks such as Dropwizard or Spring Boot
    • Enterprise integration systems such as Apache Camel or Mule ESB
    • Messaging queuing systems such as Kafka, AWS Kinesis, Pulsar
  • Able to communicate clearly and effectively up, down and across teams
  • Enjoy devising technical solutions to solve complex business problems
  • Can quickly hop into a new codebase and find your way around
  • Balance getting things done with making things perfect
  • Take pride in mentoring other developers
  • Like to get involved in deciding what gets built to solve for the customer and the company
  • A demonstrated history of self-improvement and learning love to talk!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and diverse viewpoints at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability.

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Why We Work Here

Maura Grimes Toast
Maura Grimes
Field Service Coordinator

"Ahh toast is awesome! The people, the culture, the bouncy balls, the crazy customers, the killer POS system, and the incredible talent floating through the air. "

Edmund Korley Toast
Edmund Korley
Software Engineer

"I've been participating in the Toast2Toast mentoring project. As a relatively new engineer at Toast, getting the opportunity to discuss technical (and other) topics with a mentor has been really valuable."

Kendal Austin Toast
Kendal Austin
Sr. Marketing Manager

"I have a degree in Marketing Communications and have worked in B2B technology my entire career. My background ranges from social media to paid programs to product marketing. I heard about Toast from a mentor and was connected with the co-founder on LinkedIn. As the second Marketing hire at Toast, I've had the opportunity to be a generalist as well as a specialist, moving where I was needed as the team grew."

Archie Grace Toast
Archie Grace
Engineering Manager

"I looked at a lot of start-ups during my last job search and Toast was by far the most exciting. It was instantly obvious to me how the product is useful to people and why someone might want to buy it. The proof of that has been in the way we have grown and the excitement we have already generated. However, what really excites me about the company is that I feel like we are just scratching the surface in terms of what we can accomplish. There are SO many untapped opportunities around our product and as we continue to grow, I am excited about being able to explore them more.​"