Staff Software Engineer, Orders

About the Role

On the Orders POS Team, our mission is to provide a state of the art platform for processing and synchronizing changes to orders that enables Toast to build complex and customizable workflows for our customers.

As a Staff Software Engineer on this team, you’ll play a key role in designing and implementing new features, evolving our architecture and tooling to ensure efficient high-quality delivery, and working with many other Toast R&D teams to bring high-visibility product experiences to life, ensuring that over 1 billion order changes per week across over 200,000 customers are processed quickly and accurately.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of significant capabilities on Toast's Orders platform that span multiple teams, from the cloud to the point of sale
• Join a collaborative team of Design, Product, QA, and other engineering members in developing robust and scalable software within Toast’s POS applications
• Drive architectural decisions for correctness, performance, and scale; author and review technical designs within and beyond the team
• Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementations meet requirements
• Align the technical vision and roadmap for the Orders platform with Toast's strategy
• Be a domain expert for order processing and synchronization, and the go-to partner for teams whose products build on orders
• Advocate for best coding practices to raise the bar for you, your team, and the company
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members and raise the engineering bar across the team and the broader Orders organization

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience with Object Oriented Languages like Java or Kotlin
• Track record of delivering significant platform capabilities across multiple teams in large engineering organizations
• A mix of mobile and backend development expertise, focused on distributed systems problems at high scale in large codebases
• Deep understanding of automated testing, quality, and SDLC best practices, with a history of shipping reliable apps, microservices, and libraries to production
• Experience delivering high-quality, reliable apps or libraries to production
• Expertise with modern API technologies (e.g. REST, GraphQL), including schema design, evolution, and versioning across many consumers
• Experience owning business-critical services in production: leading incident response and driving long-term reliability improvements
• Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g. Claude, Cursor, MCP servers)
• Passionate about technology and learning new things
• Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building

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