Senior Software Engineer, Retail POS

Bready* to make a change?

Toast is scaling rapidly, and with that growth comes exciting opportunities to evolve a developer ecosystem which enables Toast engineers and external partners to continue to deliver excellent products on top of a reliable and sustainable platform. This role will help define, design, build, and maintain software solutions which advance developer effectiveness at Toast and provide a world-class experience to engineers across the business.

On Toast's newest line of business, Retail, we are expanding Toast’s platform to work in retail locations.  We work with some of the most innovative concepts around, mixing food and retail. Think wine bars and markets, pizzeria + liquor stores, and boardgame cafés! We are led by two startup founders and thrive on rapid build-measure-learn feedback loops and listening to the customer at all stages of the product process.  We are looking for a motivated engineer to help build this product from the ground up.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Retail POS team, you will play a crucial role in identifying solutions, scoping initiatives and delivering novel features while also maintaining and enhancing core ordering, inventory and payment workflows. This is a unique opportunity to shape the vision for new customer and guest experiences. You'll work on a cross functional team of innovators, researchers and problem solvers to build technology solutions that help our retail customers thrive and grow.

We are seeking a proactive and skilled Senior Software Engineer with a strong background in OOP and experience navigating legacy codebases. Your primary responsibilities will include contributing to key projects on our team’s roadmap, enhancing our POS system's efficiency and user experience. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to contribute to our web-based configuration experience.

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

• Build, enhance and maintain features for Retail customers across mobile, web and microservice stacks
• Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including the payment services team, card reader hardware team, and orders architecture team.
• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, from design and prototyping to deployment and maintenance.
• Ensure robustness, performance, and reliability of the POS.
• Provide technical guidance and support through code reviews and design discussions.
• Work closely with the leads to identify high-impact opportunities
• Plan, scope and rapidly prototype solutions using a combination of web technologies
• Make technical decisions and recommendations that will lay the foundation for the future of our strategy
• Stay in tune with customer needs by participating in user interviews and research

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• Growth mindset with an emphasis on learning and self/team-improvement
• Experience with Java, Kotlin or other object oriented programming languages
• Experience with Android development preferred
• Respectful, empathetic, and humble
• Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild
• Startup mindset and comfort with ambiguity
• Flexible in using different tech stacks and languages

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