Senior Software Engineer, Business Map

• Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy.
• Business Map is a new team in Toast's growing Enterprise engineering org.
• We own how Toast models a business: its locations, the organization that owns them, and how they're grouped.
• More of our customers run many locations, operate as franchises, or have locations that aren't restaurants, and the platform needs to grow with them.
• We build the foundation other teams use to serve those customers, and we own the core services it runs on.
• We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build that foundation.
• You'll own features end to end on a small team, from location creation and copy to the new Organization APIs and the internal tools that manage them, working day to day with the team's Staff and Principal engineers.
• The work ships into services much of Toast depends on, so you'll learn the core of the platform quickly and see your changes used across the company.

A day in the life

(Responsibilities)

• Design, build, and ship features in Business Map's backend services, from a written design through production rollout
• Own a feature area end to end, including its tests, monitoring, and staged rollout behind feature flags
• Work with engineers on partner teams as they adopt new location and organization data
• Join the team's on-call rotation, and fix the root causes of what you find there
• Write designs for your features and give thoughtful code reviews
• Help newer engineers on the team through pairing and code review

What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

• 5+ years building backend services in Java, Kotlin, or another object-oriented language
• Proficient with relational databases and SQL (we use Postgres)
• Experience owning and operating production systems, including on-call and debugging live issues
• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven messaging, or microservices
• A track record of taking ambiguous projects from design to production
• Clear written and verbal communication with engineers and product partners
• Experience or strong interest in using coding agents and AI-assisted development day to day

What will help you stand out

• Experience making changes in a large, long-lived codebase while it serves production traffic
• Experience with multi-tenant data models, account hierarchies, or multi-location systems
• Familiarity with gRPC, GraphQL, or event streaming platforms
• React and TypeScript experience for internal tools
• Knowledge of restaurant or multi-location business operations

AI at Toast

• At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn.
• We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality.
• We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them.
• The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it's a core part of our culture.

Our Total Rewards Philosophy

• 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 .
• The base salary range for this role is listed below.
• The starting salary will be determined based on skills, experience, and geographic location.
• In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible), equity, and benefits.
• You can learn more about how we align pay with local labor markets in our Geographic Pay Zone Philosophy .

Zone A

$159,000 — $254,000 USD

Zone B

$138,000 — $221,000 USD

Zone C

$125,000 — $200,000 USD

• How Toast Uses AI in its Hiring Process
• Throughout the hiring process, our goal is to get to know you.
• We use AI tools to support our recruiters and interviewers with tasks like note-taking, summarization, and documentation of interviews to ensure they can be fully focused on your conversation.
• All hiring decisions are made by people.
• We ask that you complete interviews and assessments on your own, without real-time AI tools, recording, or transcription bots, unless we tell you otherwise in advance.

Our Approach to Hybrid Working

• We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs.
• Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the hospitality community, regardless of location.
• Please visit the Locations page on our career site to learn more about our in-office expectations by region: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast
• People Are the Secret Ingredient in Our Recipe for Success
• At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive.
• The restaurant industry brings together people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we value that same breadth at Toast.
• We strive to build a culture grounded in authenticity, respect, and humility, where every Toaster has a real opportunity to grow, contribute, and do their best work—raising the bar in delivering exceptional experiences for our customers and each other.

Apply today!

• Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process.
• As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process.
• If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected] .

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