Senior Software Engineer (Fullstack), New Ventures
Job description
Location(s): US (remote), Boston (hybrid), or New York (hybrid)
About Toast
Toast builds technology that helps food and beverage businesses run smoother, serve customers better, and grow with confidence. Our platform brings together the tools teams need to power daily operations—while turning complexity into clear, actionable insights. We're purpose-built for the pace of hospitality, and we're investing in new experiences that make great businesses easier to run at any scale.
Bready* to make a change?
Our New Ventures team operates like a startup inside Toast. We're a small group building a new line of business from scratch on the foundation of the Toast platform, unlocking a new market with new customers, and we have a lot of room to decide how things should work.
We're looking for a builder — someone genuinely fullstack, as comfortable in a backend service as in a React front end, who follows a problem wherever it leads instead of stopping where their specialty ends. You'll work across backend, web, and our Android point-of-sale and handheld apps. Prior Kotlin isn't required; comfort learning a new platform is.
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
- Build end-to-end across the stack — backend services, APIs and data models, web front ends, and our Android point-of-sale and handheld apps — going wherever the product needs you.
- Get up to speed on unfamiliar platforms and codebases quickly — including Android/Kotlin.
- Be customer-interested and product-minded—curious about what operators actually need, and willing to have a point of view on what we build.
- Collaborate closely with a small cross-functional team, biasing toward putting things in the hands of customers as fast as possible.
- Navigate diverse, unfamiliar codebases across the Toast platform and consistently deliver high-quality code on timeline.
- Demonstrate a high degree of ownership in all aspects of development — including the unglamorous parts: testing, instrumentation, on-call, and cleanup.
- 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.
Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)
- A track record of shipping meaningful product to real users, with clear technical and business impact.
- Genuine fullstack range: you've owned features from backend service and API through to the client, and you have a real opinion about both ends.
- Solid backend fundamentals (Java, Kotlin, or similar) — distributed systems, asynchronous communication, event-driven architecture, API design, and integration patterns.
- Comfort with modern web front-end development (React or similar) and an eye for a usable interface.
- A credible track record of learning a new language, framework, or platform on the job and shipping production code in it.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver clean, maintainable, resilient code that withstands the test of time.
- Experience in 0→1 builds, and high comfort with shifting priorities and incomplete requirements.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills — you can write up a technical design, get alignment on it, and work well with product and design partners.
- A clear pattern of using AI tools to accelerate your work, and the ability to speak specifically about how you use them to ship better work faster.
Special sauce* (Nice to haves)
- Android development experience, particularly production Kotlin (or Java alongside it).
- You've worked on early-stage products, internal incubations, or rapid experimentation teams.
- Experience with point-of-sale, payments, hardware-adjacent, or offline-first systems.
- You've been the person on a team who fills whatever gap is open — and you enjoyed it.
AI at Toast
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 https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.
The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills, experience, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible), equity, and benefits. You can learn more about how we align pay with local labor markets in our Geographic Pay Zone Philosophy.
How Toast Uses AI in its Hiring Process
Throughout the hiring process, our goal is to get to know you. We use AI tools to support our recruiters and interviewers with tasks like note-taking, summarization, and documentation of interviews to ensure they can be fully focused on your conversation. All hiring decisions are made by people. We ask that you complete interviews and assessments on your own, without real-time AI tools, recording, or transcription bots, unless we tell you otherwise in advance. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring
Our Approach to Hybrid Working
We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the hospitality community, regardless of location. Please visit the Locations page on our career site to learn more about our in-office expectations by region: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast
People Are the Secret Ingredient in Our Recipe for Success
At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry brings together people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we value that same breadth at Toast. We strive to build a culture grounded in authenticity, respect, and humility, where every Toaster has a real opportunity to grow, contribute, and do their best work—raising the bar in delivering exceptional experiences for our customers and each other.
Apply today!
Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected].
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