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# TELECOMMUTE Staff Software Engineer

- **Company:** Toast, Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $193,000.0 - $309,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Apache HTTP Server, Cloud Computing, Databases, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Distributed Systems, Amazon DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Message Oriented Middleware, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, Cloud Platform System, Kotlin, Event Driven Architecture, Terraform, Programming Languages
- **Published:** July 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/490db402-e995-45a8-a6e0-52cf49c125f8

## About the Role

* Hands-on experience building and operating complex, mission-critical, large-scale distributed systems in the Cloud
 * Expertise in asynchronous messaging, event-driven architecture, APIs, and integration patterns
 * Track record of delivering clean, maintainable, and resilient code that stands the test of time
 * Proficiency in Java or Kotlin preferred (experience in other modern programming languages also valued)
 * Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with demonstrated ability to align and inspire cross-functional teams
 * A demonstrated record of mentoring junior team members and enhancing the team's effectiveness

## Description

We are looking for an experienced software engineer to play a critical role in further scaling and developing Toast's cloud platform and infrastructure. Toast's platform processes billions of requests per day from hundreds of internal services and hundreds of thousands of mobile devices; these numbers grow exponentially year over year as we add new restaurants and capabilities to the platform. Our team is responsible for developing secure, observable, highly available, large-scale shared services and infrastructure.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

 * Architect, design, and deliver ultra-reliable, high-performance services and infrastructure used by millions
 * Uncover and resolve performance bottlenecks across infrastructure, databases, and APIs
 * Define and enable adherence to engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural guidelines
 * Collaborate closely with the Product team to influence features, technical direction, and long-term product vision
 * Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team., Our team builds and operates on a modern, cloud-native stack with heavy use of AWS, developing services and shared libraries in Kotlin and Go backed by PostgreSQL and DynamoDB. Infrastructure is provisioned and managed with Terraform. We oversee Toast's sharded PostgreSQL databases, drive the organization's use of Apache Pulsar to enable event-driven architecture at scale, and provide developers with tools and services to easily schedule recurring jobs. Our systems also power customer engagement, integrating with SMS and email providers to reliably deliver millions of messages per day. We embrace AI-driven software development at Toast, using tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and more.


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