Staff Software Engineer, Orders

Toast, Inc.

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Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$193,000–$309,000 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Jan 26, 2027

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $251k
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This role pays more than 85% of similar roles. Most pay $183,323–$238,250 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $251k versus about $211k for comparable roles.

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About Toast, Inc.

Toast is a cloud-based restaurant management platform providing point-of-sale, payment processing, and operations software for the food service industry.

Toast, Inc. currently has 26 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $193,000–$309,000 across 26 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, Orders

JOB TITLE: Staff Software Engineer, Orders As a Staff Software Engineer on the Orders POS Team, you will lead the design and delivery of significant capabilities for a platform that processes and synchronizes order changes. You will drive architectural decisions for correctness, performance, and scale while mentoring team members and providing technical guidance. Your daily work involves developing robust, scalable software for POS applications, authoring technical designs, and participating in code reviews. You will utilize Object Oriented Languages like Java or Kotlin, modern API technologies such as REST and GraphQL, and AI-assisted development tools like Claude and Cursor. The role focuses on solving distributed systems problems at high scale, specifically ensuring that over 1 billion order changes per week across many customers are processed quickly and accurately within the order processing domain.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

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What you'll do

  • Lead the design and delivery of significant capabilities on the Orders platform across multiple teams.
  • Drive architectural decisions for correctness, performance, and scale while authoring technical designs.
  • Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementations meet requirements.
  • Align the technical vision and roadmap for the Orders platform with company strategy.
  • Serve as the domain expert for order processing and synchronization for internal partners.
  • Mentor team members and provide technical guidance to raise the engineering bar across the organization.
  • Own business-critical services in production by leading incident response and driving reliability improvements.
  • Leverage AI-assisted development tools to enhance workflow velocity and pioneer new building approaches.

What we're looking for

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Expertise with modern API technologies including REST and GraphQL, including schema design, evolution, and versioning.
  • 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 (preferred).

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