Requirements

• 5+ years of back-end software engineering experience in Kotlin or another relevant language.
• Strong experience with distributed systems, including designing for reliability, diagnosing failures, and scaling services.
• Experience owning and operating production systems, with solid instincts around testing and code quality.
• A track record of tackling ambiguous, high-impact challenges and delivering scalable solutions.
• Curiosity about how traffic moves through large-scale systems, and the motivation to learn quickly and apply what you learn.
• Clear communication and a collaborative approach to working across teams and time zones.

Nice to Haves

• Experience building platforms or infrastructure used by other engineering teams.
• Familiarity with network or traffic-management concepts such as routing, load balancing, DNS, or HTTP.
• Experience with AWS, infrastructure as code (such as Terraform), or cloud networking.
• Experience with service meshes (such as Envoy or Istio) or operating high-availability traffic systems.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate software that helps Toast's services connect and route traffic reliably.
• Improve the scalability, resilience, and observability of critical systems as Toast grows.
• Take end-to-end ownership of systems, making changes safer to roll out and failures easier to detect, diagnose, and resolve.
• Investigate production issues, participate in on-call, and turn what we learn into lasting improvements.
• Collaborate with engineers across Toast on projects that span services and infrastructure.
• Contribute to technical designs and raise team standards through thoughtful code reviews and technical discussions.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members.
• Use AI tooling as a genuine part of your workflow, not an afterthought.

Perks and Benefits

• Hybrid role requiring two days a week in the office, supporting in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs.
• Competitive compensation and benefits programs designed to attract, retain, and motivate top talent.
• Supportive culture grounded in authenticity, respect, and humility, fostering growth and exceptional experiences.
• Commitment to accessible and inclusive hiring processes with reasonable accommodations available for persons with disabilities.
• Use of AI-assisted development tools as part of daily engineering to build faster and with higher quality.