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HospitalityCustomer successJavaKotlinAndroidCommunication
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United States only
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Visa sponsorship, if you would relocate
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
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Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 29 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first.
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The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
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No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area.
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What Toast INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles5 certified filings for “Staff Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in TX: $175k–$210k, median $190k.
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Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
Details and sources
- Employer is on a government sponsor record
- The US Department of Labor certified 29 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- No salary bar for this route
- H-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Toast INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles
- 5 certified filings for “Staff Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in TX: $175k–$210k, median $190k. Most were filed at wage level IV (60%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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About the role
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.
Toast is looking for a Staff Software engineer to lead our Enterprise Sports & Entertainment team. You will get to work across the entire Toast platform, including our POS, backend, and front end systems. As a member of the Enterprise Sports & Entertainment team, you will help deliver the most important features for our Sports & Entertainment and hospitality customers and directly impact Toast’s success.
A day in the life (Responsibilities)
• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features across Toast’s Sports & Entertainment product offerings
• Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers
• Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast
• Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes
• Roll* features out to customers, including monitoring for success
• Partner closely with Design and Product on the definition and design of features
• Partner with cross-functional functions including Customer Success, Solutions, Sales, Care, and Onboarding to ensure technical deliverables align with enterprise customer expectations and long-term strategy
• Mentor and coach other engineers
• 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 experience building backend services and APIs
• Extensive experience working with an Object Oriented Language like Java or Kotlin, with a deep understanding of testing, quality, and best practices
• Experience shipping production services and balancing getting things done with platform stability and reliability
• Experience building backend services and APIs and scaling distributed systems
• Experience building android applications with kotlin is a plus
• Experience building front end applications is a plus
• Focused on delivering positive impact for Toast customers
• Enjoys working in a team environment with a shared code-base
• Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics
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 .
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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 oth
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