Senior Software Engineer - Toast Connect

Toast is building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: running the businesses they love. We’ve grown into a leading hospitality software company in the U.S., and are now entering our next phase of growth - one defined by scale, complexity, and a new class of enterprise customers. Toast is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Toast Connect team in Dublin. The Connect team owns how everything outside Toast connects to Toast including the event infrastructure every team at Toast uses to publish data, the frameworks partners and customers use to integrate through our APIs, and a new charter to make Toast the source of truth for all the data about the customers we serve. You will play a key role in evolving our platform to support ever more complex new features and best-in-class monitoring as we scale to orders of magnitude of our current size! If you want to help create something tangible that is used every day, help businesses achieve their vision, and take on the challenge of scaling a SaaS product, Toast is the place for you. A day in the life (Responsibilities) • Design, build, deploy, and maintain scalable backend microservices and RESTful APIs using Java / Kotlin and AWS infrastructure. • Lead complex projects that may span multiple teams & systems. • Champion best practices such quality automated testing and phased rollouts to ensure zero-regression releases and high test coverage. • Monitor service health for success & failure, analyze logs and metrics (Datadog/CloudWatch), and participate in on-call rotations to maintain platform uptime. • Collaborate with peer engineers, provide design feedback, and participate in code reviews. • Collaborate with PM & UX on the development of new features & products. • Mentor & coach your peer engineers. • Use AI tooling as a genuine part of your workflow, not an afterthought What you'll need to thrive (Requirements) • 5+ years professional backend software development in Kotlin, Java, or another object-oriented language, with solid instincts around testing and code quality. • Have strong understanding & hands-on experience of building RESTful apis, fault-tolerant, highly-scalable & secure distributed systems. • Proficiency with sql/nosql databases, strong understanding of distributed datastores and knowledge of when to use what. • Familiarity with distributed systems concepts, asynchronous messaging (Kafka, Pulsar, or AWS SQS/SNS), and cloud platforms (AWS). • Strong communication & problem-solving skills, curiosity to learn restaurant domain workflows, and enthusiasm for collaborating in an agile, cross-functional team. • Demonstrate humility, empathy and respectfulness. *This is a hybrid role requiring two days per week in the office* What will help you stand out: • Experience designing platform APIs that other teams depend on - platform thinking, not just feature delivery • Comfort with document-based or columnar data stores a plus We are hiring individuals with a wide range of experience so if you have more or less than these exact roles, please still apply! What we use to make our dish: (Our Tech Stack) • Backend services which follow a microservice architecture written using Kotlin, Java and DropWizard • Event driven messaging & streaming using Apache Pulsar & RabbitMQ. • Apache Camel for implementing Enterprise Integration Pattern. • React & ES6 based Frontend SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook. • DynamoDb, Postgres & Opensearch as core persistence data-storage layers. • Datadog & Sentry for system and application metric and monitoring. • Splunk for log aggregation. • FireHydrant for alerting. Our Spread of Total Rewards We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits. How Toast Uses AI in its Hiring Process Throughout the hiring process, our goal is to get to know you. We use AI tools to support our recruiters and interviewers with tasks like note-taking, summarization, and documentation of interviews to ensure they can be fully focused on your conversation. All hiring decisions are made by people. We ask that you complete interviews and assessments on your own, without real-time AI tools, recording, or transcription bots, unless we tell you otherwise in advance. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring Our Approach to Hybrid Working We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the hospitality community, regardless of location. Please visit the Locations page on our career site to learn more about our in-office expectations by region: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast People Are the Secret Ingredient in Our Recipe for Success At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry brings together people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we value that same breadth at Toast. We strive to build a culture grounded in authenticity, respect, and humility, where every Toaster has a real opportunity to grow, contribute, and do their best work—raising the bar in delivering exceptional experiences for our customers and each other. Apply today! Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. 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