Staff Software Engineer, Backend
Toast, Inc.
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This role pays less than 88% of similar roles. Most pay $156,750–$219,425 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $118k versus about $188k for comparable roles.
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LogicGate is the leading AI GRC platform for the Enterprise, helping governance, risk, and compliance teams limit surprises, strengthen resilience, augment program performance, and confidently quantify impact and business value.
LogicGate currently has 9 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $105,000–$125,000 across 8 roles with salary data.
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Software Engineer: Back-End will join the platform team to build robust backend services, APIs, and data layers for the Risk Cloud. Working autonomously within a specific domain, the engineer will design stable solutions, develop features using Java, Kotlin, and Spring Boot, and manage production releases. Responsibilities include writing unit and integration tests with JUnit, performing systematic debugging of distributed logs, and managing data across PostgreSQL, Neo4j, Redis, and RabbitMQ. The role requires expertise in REST API design, schema migrations, and utilizing AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot or Cursor. Candidates must be proficient in JVM languages and capable of navigating complex microservices architectures. This position addresses the technical challenges of providing a centralized view of risk and compliance within an enterprise-grade governance, risk, and compliance platform.
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