Senior Software Engineer - e-commerce

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.

Bready* to make a change?

Toast is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who is passionate about building robust, scalable and customer-centric systems. We are a team transforming the eCommerce platform and associated integration technologies.  In this role you will partner with other engineering teams as well as business systems teams on multiple initiatives to deliver a seamless experience for our customers, business operations, sales, and customer success teams. These collaborations play a critical role in how we engage and maintain high quality relationships with the restaurants we serve.

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

• Translate requirements into solutions, hands-on contributions in designing and building key architectural components and integrations that make up our eCommerce Platform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to get the job done and provide insights necessary to think beyond the status quo. 
• Review code to ensure that technical implementation meets functional requirements, as well as our high standards for code quality and testing.
• Ensure that our systems are performant, scalable, resilient and highly available
• Collaborate with UX, PM, QA and Engineering to build best-in-class solutions in a complex and fast-moving environment
• Champion best practices for development, deployment and quality life-cycles
• Guide the growth & development of engineers with mentoring and training.

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• Minimum 5 years of experience in ecommerce infrastructure development, including hands-on experience with enterprise ecommerce platforms 
• Deep understanding of ecommerce best practices, usability principles, and information architecture
• Emphasis on back-end code but must be familiar with front-end concepts and development as well
• Experience delivering high quality, reliable services to production using Java or Kotlin 
• Strong testing discipline, writing unit and integration tests and believing in automation to maintain software quality.
• Experience integrating with third party products and applications, including Salesforce, Netsuite and billing platforms.
• Familiarity with NoSQL databases, preferably DynamoDB, Postgres
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Lead by example, at times, working alongside the team in defining requirements, workflows, interaction, user journeys, process/screen flows, and wireframes

Bonus ingredients*

• Familiarity with React or other modern Web UI technologies
• Familiarity with Test Automation frameworks for backend services

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