Staff Software Engineer- International

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. What is our Mission Toast has established itself as the leading hospitality platform in the US, and we are now setting our sights on the global stage. As part of the International team, in our mission to expand globally, we are building what it takes to help our customers thrive. You will join a high-impact, high-ownership engineering team solving complex technical challenges. We are looking for leadership that balances technical excellence with a strong customer mindset to drive continuous growth for both the team and our platform. A day in the life (Responsibilities) • Lead complex projects within a cross-functional collaborative and supportive environment. • Design, build, deploy and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems critical to our customers’ success. • Mentor and provide technical guidance to team members, leading technical discussions and promoting best engineering practices. • Work directly with pilot customers (sometimes in the restaurant!) to ensure successful delivery and operation • Advocate for best coding practices, raising the bar for yourself, your team, and the company. • 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. What you'll need to thrive (Requirements) • 8+ years of experience in delivering high quality, reliable services to production using Java, Kotlin or other object oriented language(s) • Proven track record of architecting, supporting and debugging large distributed & multi threaded applications. • Drive to work across our tech stack and support other engineers in resolving challenging problems • Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild. • Ability to embrace an agile mindset focused on delivering usable software. Experience with internationalization or global product launches is a plus Our Tech Stack • 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 as core persistence. • Pulsar, Camel and RabbitMQ for message-based integrations. • And many more technologies that help us build a top class platform. **This is a hybrid role requiring in-office collaboration two days per week in our Dublin office.** #LI-HYBRID #BI-Hybrid 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 . 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-tak