About the role
<p>Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy.&nbsp;Because our technology is purpose-built for restaurants, by restaurant people - and increasingly shaped by AI in both what we build and how we build - restaurants can trust that we’ll deliver on their needs for today while investing in the experiences that will power their restaurant of the future.</p> <p>We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to <strong>work within our team focused on building an AI Marketing Agent that empowers restaurants to drive engagement, retention and growth. </strong>The team will help shape the future of how restaurants use technology to connect with their guests - increasingly through AI-powered tools and experiences that drive automation, personalization and smarter decision-making. You will be a key part of a high-impact, high-ownership engineering team solving complex challenges in a fast-moving product space. Your engineering leadership will be balancing technical excellence alongside a strong product mindset to solve for continuous growth within both the team and our product space.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>A day in the life (Responsibilities)</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead complex projects that deeply connect restaurants with their guests within a cross-functional collaborative and supportive environment.</li> <li>Design, build, deploy and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems critical to our customers’ success.</li> <li>Collaborate with team members and other engineers across the company</li> <li>Monitor feature rollouts to ensure customer success, iterating and improving when necessary.</li> <li>Advocate for best coding practices, raising the bar for yourself, your team and the company.</li> <li>Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members.</li> </ul> <p><br><br></p> <p><strong>What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)<br></strong></p> <ul> <li>Driven by impact and solving for the customer</li> <li>Strong experience with Kotlin, Java or another object-oriented language</li> <li>Proven track record of delivering reliable services within a distributed architecture to production.</li> <li>Ability to break down complex problems and communicate solutions clearly throughout cross-functional teams.</li> <li>Values personal and team growth, balancing task completion with platform stability.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;<strong>What we use to make our dish: (Our Tech Stack)</strong></p> <ul> <li>A core of <strong>Java &amp; Kotlin</strong>