Staff Software Engineer

Toast, Inc.

Remote

Quick summary

Work type: Remote
Location: Boston, MA
Salary: $193,000–$309,000 / yr
Posted: 141 days ago
Closes: Sep 16, 2026
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $251k

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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 37 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $179,000–$286,500 across 36 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer

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Join the Orders Cloud Sync Team as a Staff Software Engineer and contribute to building a state-of-the-art platform for processing over 1 billion order changes weekly across more than 150,000 customers. You will design and implement new features, enhance our microservice architecture using Kotlin/Java and DropWizard on AWS, and collaborate with various Toast R&D teams to deliver high-visibility product experiences. Key responsibilities include leading complex projects, optimizing system performance, and driving engineering productivity improvements while ensuring the reliability of mission-critical services. Required skills encompass experience in presenting project plans, shipping production services, and scaling distributed systems, along with a growth mindset and leadership qualities in technical decision-making.

Skills

AWS Kubernetes DynamoDB RDS Lambda PostgreSQL Apache Spark React ES6 Java Kotlin DropWizard Pulsar RabbitMQ CI/CD Microservices

What you'll do

Design and implement highly resilient and scalable systems for processing orders.
Lead complex projects across multiple teams to enhance functionality and reliability.
Anticipate future needs in system design while balancing trade-offs effectively.
Diagnose performance bottlenecks and optimize system efficiency continuously.
Act as a technical leader, driving quality practices and improving engineering productivity.

What we're looking for

Extensive experience designing and implementing complex, mission-critical production services.
Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-scale distributed systems.
Expertise in diagnosing performance bottlenecks and optimizing system efficiency.
Strong background in microservice architecture using Kotlin/Java with AWS technologies.
Demonstrated ability to communicate technical direction and guide team execution effectively.

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