Backend Software Engineer II - Funds Management

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.

You’ll be a key contributor on the Funds Management team at the heart of Toast’s business. This team handles billions of dollars annually with hundreds of thousands of restaurants depending on us – so it’s vital that we pay them the correct amount, on time, every single day. You’ll collaborate closely with the team to build reliable, scalable, and trustworthy features as well as  working on  the cutting edge of emerging real-time payment technologies.  As a member of the team you’ll have opportunities to learn from other talented engineers as well as mentoring and helping more junior members grow.

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

• Develop an expert understanding of Toast’s payments processing platform and related FinTech offerings, such as loans and savings.
• Collaborate on a new innovative settlements platform for restaurant credit card payments, seamlessly processing millions of financial transactions daily
• Contribute & gain experience at every stage – solution design, estimation, coding, code review, testing, debugging, integrating, documenting, and maintaining.
• Champion best practices – quality integration, continuous delivery, automated testing, security reviews, end-to-end testing, performance testing
• Ensure that all work is delivered with quality and is monitored and supported in production

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• 2+ years of professional experience with Java, Kotlin or another object-oriented language
• Capacity to tackle complex and ambiguous problems, communicate clearly with others to solve the problem, and share knowledge to help the whole team succeed
• Enjoys building well-engineered, reliable, and scalable microservices
• Driven by real-world customer impact
• Experience working in a team with Agile/Scrum methodology focused on delivering reliable high-quality software

Special Sauce* (Nice to Haves)

• Professional experience of component testing and E2E testing
• Experience with AWS technologies like DynamoDB and ECS
• Exposure to distributed systems, SaaS, SQL, Apache Pulsar 

What we use to make our dish (Our Tech Stack)

• A core of Java & Kotlin based backend services.
• Dynamodb as core persistence.
• Apache Pulsar for message-based integrations.
• And many more technologies that help us build a top class platform.

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