Toast jobs

Toast, which provides restaurant management and operations software, is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for the Care & Onboarding team—the group responsible for tools that support customer service agents and onboarding consultants. You'll drive architectural decisions across their platforms, lead large-scope technical initiatives from design through production, eliminate systemic challenges like operational toil and cross-team dependencies, and mentor engineers while maintaining high code quality standards. The role requires 8+ years building complex backend systems at scale, mastery of Java/Kotlin or similar object-oriented languages, deep expertise in API lifecycle management and data modeling, and demonstrated ability to influence across engineering, product, and business teams. Compensation ranges from $151K–$309K depending on location (three geographic zones), with equity and benefits included; Toast emphasizes a hybrid work model and values learning with AI tools as core to its culture. A notable differentiator is hands-on experience building with LLMs in production and familiarity with iPaaS platforms like Workato are highlighted as standout skills.

Senior Software Engineer role on Toast's AI Foundations platform team, building AI infrastructure including LLM proxies, agentic workflows, observability pipelines, and plugin marketplaces. Requires 5+ years backend systems experience, familiarity with LLMs and MCP (Model Context Protocol), and strong Java/Kotlin skills. This is a hybrid role requiring 2 days/week in Bengaluru office.