Senior Software Engineer- Agent

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy. Because our technology is purpose-built for restaurants, by restaurant people – and increasingly shaped by AI in both what we build and how we build – restaurants can trust that we’ll deliver on their needs for today while investing in the experiences that will power their restaurant of the future.

We’re seeking a Senior Software Engineer to work within our team focused on building an AI Marketing Agent that empowers restaurants to drive engagement, retention, and growth. The team will help shape the future of how restaurants use technology to connect with their guests – increasingly through AI-powered tools and experiences that drive automation, personalization and smarter decision-making. You will be a key part of a high-impact, high-ownership engineering team solving complex challenges in a fast-moving product space.

Your engineering leadership will be balancing technical excellence alongside a strong product mindset to solve for continuous growth within both the team and our product space.

• Lead complex projects that deeply connect restaurants with their guests within a cross-functional collaborative and supportive environment.
• Design, build, deploy and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems critical to our customers’ success.
• Collaborate with team members and other engineers across the company.
• Monitor feature rollouts to ensure customer success, iterating and improving when necessary.
• Advocate for best coding practices, raising the bar for yourself, your team and the company.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members.

• Driven by impact and solving for the customer.
• Strong experience with Kotlin, Java or another object-oriented language.
• Proven track record of delivering reliable services within a distributed architecture to production.
• Ability to break down complex problems and communicate solutions clearly throughout cross-functional teams.
• Values personal and team growth, balancing task completion with platform stability.

• A core of Java & Kotlin based backend services.
• React SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook.
• Android app built in Java & Kotlin running in the restaurant.
• PostgreSQL and DynamoDB for persistence.
• Pulsar, Camel and RabbitMQ for message-based integrations.
• And many more technologies that help us build a top class platform.

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 team already drives 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.

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 each employee’s changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.