Senior Software Engineer, Delivery Service

Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.

The Toast Delivery Services team enables restaurants to build thriving, profitable first party delivery channels while growing Toast’s consumer business. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in enabling seamless integrations with third‑party delivery providers, helping restaurants offer direct delivery through Toast’s Online Ordering channels. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a high‑impact service focused on optimizing experiences for our restaurants and the customers who order from them.

We are looking for a visionary engineer who is motivated by these challenges and eager to transform our first and third‑party delivery architecture to meet the dynamic needs of our customers and our rapidly growing business. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Toast Delivery Services team, you will take ownership of essential product features, building robust and scalable integrations, making important technical decisions that enhance our capabilities and ensure scalability.

You will have the opportunity to make a huge impact in a critical space. You will work along with your team to enhance technical excellence within the team and contribute to the success of our broader engineering community.

• Contribute to the evolution of our Delivery architecture and data models, delivering scalable solutions that have significant business impact.
• Drives action and innovation within the team, leading delivery of projects from conception to production
• Activates the team to iteratively improve quality, incorporating technical considerations and customer feedback
• Owns technical decisions of crucial features in the Delivery services, applies learning from production experience, research, and data driven insights to existing systems and future designs
• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, inclusivity, and engineering excellence.
• Build and maintain strong partnerships across lines of business, aligning technical solutions with strategic objectives.

• Hands‑on experience building backend applications using Java, Kotlin, Scala, or other object‑oriented language(s)
• Proven track record of technical leadership and contribution to complex projects
• Expertise in building product applications
• Deep understanding of distributed event‑driven systems;
  Familiarity with Dynamo
  
  DB not required but a plus
• Respectful, empathetic, and humble
• Has a growth mindset with an emphasis on improving yourself and your team
• Balances getting things done with platform stability

At Toast, one of our company values is that we’re hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them.

The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture.

Our Total Rewards Philosophy

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

The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills and experience. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, boncommissions, if eligible), benefits, and equity (if eligible).

Pay Range

$134,000-$214,000 USD

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