Jobs at Toast

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend and full-stack solutions for restaurant guest experiences. Ship features end-to-end, collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering, use AI-assisted development tools, and mentor engineers through reviews and feedback. The role emphasizes Java and Kotlin backend services, React applications, AI agentic workflows, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, agile delivery, and strong product ownership.

Build and own backend services powering Toast’s product-led growth experiences, including targeting, offers, purchases, activation, and conversion tracking. Develop reusable experimentation infrastructure, integrate billing and provisioning systems, and create LLM-powered Toast IQ experiences. Partner cross-functionally to launch, measure, and iterate on customer-facing features. Contribute to architecture and engineering standards while mentoring teammates.

Designs, builds, and operates Toast’s distributed compute and storage infrastructure on AWS. Responsibilities include managing highly available relational and nonrelational databases, scalable compute clusters, containerized environments, streaming pipelines, infrastructure automation, observability, performance engineering, reliability, and cloud cost optimization. The role supports low-latency, high-throughput products across Toast’s platform and requires hybrid in-office work two days per week.

Designs, builds, and operates Toast’s distributed compute and storage infrastructure on AWS. Responsibilities include managing relational and nonrelational databases, improving availability and latency, automating infrastructure with Terraform and programming languages, operating containerized environments, implementing observability and SRE practices, supporting AI/ML infrastructure, and optimizing cloud costs and performance.

Designs and supports cloud-native infrastructure, automation, landing zones, networking, and security infrastructure for AWS regions. Builds infrastructure-as-code modules, CI/CD tools, developer platforms, and migration tooling. Maintains highly available production and nonproduction environments, promotes DevOps practices and code quality, and mentors developers on infrastructure tooling and support systems.

Lead development of scalable scheduling software for Toast’s restaurant workforce management product. Responsibilities include full-stack feature development, solution design, estimation, testing, debugging, technical reviews, mentoring developers, and collaboration with product managers, designers, customer success, and engineering stakeholders. The role also champions software quality and development practices, contributes to product decisions, and uses AI tools to improve engineering productivity. This is a hybrid position requiring two days per week in the Dublin office.

Develop and maintain scalable Android applications running on Toast POS hardware. Ship features end-to-end, build intuitive user experiences, monitor production performance, and iterate based on customer usage. Collaborate with Product, Design, QA, and Engineering teams in an Agile environment while integrating backend services and applying modern Android development practices. The role also involves using AI-assisted development tools and maintaining strong standards for code quality, testing, and clean software design.

Lead Toast’s Dublin-based OLAP Platform engineering team, defining technical strategy, scaling real-time analytics infrastructure, improving performance and cost efficiency, and establishing governance for AI-driven consumers. The role involves cross-team roadmap alignment, developer experience ownership, operational metrics and monitoring, incident prevention, and mentoring engineers while fostering an inclusive, high-ownership culture.

Lead EMEA People Operations within a global shared-services model, providing employee lifecycle support, benefits and leave administration, case escalation, compliance, reporting, and SLA management. Drive automation, standardization, process improvements, and scalable HR transformation while partnering with global centers of excellence and cross-functional stakeholders. Serve as the local subject matter expert for EMEA labor regulations, GDPR, HR technology, and employee experience initiatives.

Build and maintain AI platform infrastructure, including LLM proxies, AI key management, observability pipelines, autonomous agents, MCP services, and an internal plugin marketplace. Develop reliable backend systems and developer tooling, collaborate across engineering and product teams, and promote agentic development practices. The role requires experience with scalable services, LLM-powered agents, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, prompt engineering, and AI coding assistants.

Leads architecture and development of backend services, APIs, integrations, and data systems that consolidate engineering, tooling, cost, and AI usage signals. Builds auditable reporting tools, owns reliability and monitoring, drives projects through rollout, collaborates with product and business stakeholders, and mentors engineers. The role requires backend, data modeling, SQL, full-stack prototyping, automated testing, production support, and hands-on agentic engineering practices.

Build and maintain scalable software for Toast’s restaurant guest-experience products. Ship features end to end, collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering, monitor real-world performance, and iterate rapidly. The role focuses on Java and Kotlin backend services while requiring frontend integration and openness to full-stack work. Engineers will also use AI-assisted development tools and LLM-based agents to improve productivity and pioneer new engineering workflows.

Design, build, and maintain scalable software for Toast’s international mid-market restaurant customers. Deliver features end to end, collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering, monitor outcomes, and iterate based on usage. The role involves backend and full-stack development across Java, Kotlin, React, and related technologies, use of AI-assisted development tools, and mentoring less experienced engineers through reviews and feedback.

Designs and supports cloud-native infrastructure, automation, landing zones, network and security infrastructure across AWS regions. Builds and maintains infrastructure-as-code modules, CI/CD tools, developer platform services, and migration tooling. Establishes coding standards, tests internal tools, mentors developers, and leads critical platform features at scale.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for architecting, building, and scaling AI agent systems for restaurant marketing and demand generation. The role requires hands-on backend and full-stack development, technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration, mentoring, end-to-end feature delivery, and improving engineering workflows with AI tools. The engineer will design reliable systems, resolve performance bottlenecks, guide technical standards, and support product growth in a hybrid Dublin environment.

Build and scale Toast’s labor cost and timekeeping platforms, processing tens of millions of shift events weekly. Responsibilities include designing, implementing, testing, deploying, operating, and improving backend systems; owning production services; partnering with product and design; conducting code reviews; and mentoring engineers. The role focuses on reliable, maintainable, data-intensive systems operating at massive scale.

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Android POS payment integrations using Kotlin. Lead architecture and technical decisions, optimize secure mobile payment flows, integrate hardware SDKs, ensure PCI-DSS compliance, troubleshoot complex issues, and mentor engineers. Collaborate across backend, product, UX/UI, and QA teams while improving reliability, observability, scalability, and development practices.

Lead architecture and development of backend services, integrations, internal tools, and data systems for engineering metrics, tooling spend, ROI, and cost reporting. Build reliable APIs and auditable analytics products, replace manual processes, own testing, monitoring, and production support, and mentor engineers. Collaborate with product and business stakeholders while applying agentic engineering practices.

Design, build, and maintain high-performance Android solutions for Toast POS, ship end-to-end features, collaborate with UX/PM/QA, integrate backend services, and iterate using AI-assisted tools to improve guest engagement in restaurants.

Lead architecture and implementation of AI agents and infrastructure for the Team domain. Define scalable, secure designs, partner with engineering and product, write code and prototypes, resolve performance bottlenecks, establish agent/ spec-driven patterns, and mentor engineers to deliver mission-critical SaaS systems.