Staff Software Engineer (Dublin, Ireland) in London

This hybrid role is based in Dublin, Ireland (Full relocation provided). 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 missions to expand globally, we are building the core systems to launch Toast into new markets. You will join a high-impact, high-ownership engineering team solving complex technical challenges in a fast-paced environment. We are looking for leadership that balances technical excellence with a strong product 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.
• Orchestrate our backend services to support internationalization working across software both in the restaurant and the cloud.
• Design, build, deploy and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems critical to our customers’ success.
• Iterate on our technical approach to data management in support of our international strategy.
• 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 fiscalisation, internationalization 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.

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.

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.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success

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.

We Thrive Together

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 restaurant community.

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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.