Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise

Quick Facts

Role: Staff Software Engineer (Enterprise) — Enterprise Sports & Entertainment team. Work across the Toast platform (POS, backend, and frontend) to deliver resilient, scalable capabilities for enterprise customers.

Description

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will lead highly impactful projects for Sports & Entertainment and hospitality customers. You will design, build, deploy, and maintain scalable features, ensure quality with automated testing, and roll out changes while monitoring success. You’ll partner with Product and Design, collaborate with cross-functional enterprise teams, mentor engineers, and use cutting-edge AI tools to improve workflow and velocity.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features across Toast’s Sports & Entertainment product offerings
• Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability
• Collaborate with a wide array of teams across Toast
• Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes
• Roll out features to customers, including monitoring for success
• Partner closely with Design and Product on feature definition and design
• Partner with cross-functional teams (Customer Success, Solutions, Sales, Care, Onboarding) to align deliverables with enterprise expectations and long-term strategy
• Mentor and coach other engineers
• Leverage cutting-edge AI tools to enhance the development workflow and pioneer new approaches

Requirements

• 8+ years experience building backend services and APIs
• Extensive experience with an object-oriented language such as Java or Kotlin, including testing, quality, and best practices
• Experience shipping production services while balancing delivery with platform stability and reliability
• Experience building backend services and APIs and scaling distributed systems
• Experience building Android applications with Kotlin (plus)
• Experience building front-end applications (plus)
• Customer-focused mindset
• Enjoys working in a team environment with a shared codebase
• Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and total rewards package including cash compensation (overtime/bonuses if eligible), equity, and benefits
• Hybrid work model
• Base salary range (USD) by geographic zone: Zone A $193,000–$309,000; Zone B $168,000–$269,000; Zone C $151,000–$242,000