Toast Logo

Toast

Principal Software Engineer- Backend

Posted Yesterday
Be an Early Applicant
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Senior level
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Senior level
The Principal Software Engineer will design and implement advanced backend solutions, mentor engineers, ensure high-quality service delivery, and optimize performance for restaurant financial services.
The summary above was generated by AI

Principal Software Engineer- Backend, Accounting Domain

Location:  Chennai

Work Mode: This role follows a hybrid work model, requiring a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.
Minimum educational qualifications : Any UG

Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.

Are you bready* for a change?

Toast is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to take responsibility for bringing our architecture to the next level and level up the team. As well as providing a cutting edge point of sale system for restaurants, Toast also processes billions of dollars of payments, and offers best-in-class financial service solutions to our customers. As we grow our solutions to meet the needs of our customers, we are also focused on optimizing for extensibility, resilience and scalability, using continuous delivery tools & methodology.
Join us to improve our platform and add the next generation of products. 

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

As a Principal Software Engineer on our team, you will:

  • Design and deliver the next generation of Toast products using Toast set of technologies, (Kotlin, DynamoDB, React, Pulsar,Camel, GraphQL, Big Data technologies, etc) 
  • Work with our Data Platform teams to develop a best in class reporting and analytics product.
  • Document solution design, write & review code, test and rollout solutions to production, capturing & actioning customer feedback to iteratively enhance customer experience
  • Collaborate with peers to optimize for solution design performance, flexibility and scalable, including enablement of multi-product & engineering teams on a common framework & platform
  • Collaborate with UX, Product Management, QA and partner engineering teams to build best-in-class solutions in a complex and fast-moving environment
  • Directly coach and mentor engineers on best in class industry standard development best practices

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

  • 12+ years of software development experience.
  • Experience with continuous delivery of high quality, reliable and scalable services to production
  • Experience in AI, Cloud, Image processing and Full stack development.
  • Proficient in database technologies such as SQL server, Postgres, or Dynamo DB.
  • Proficient in cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
  • Proficient in Java, Kotlin, C# or other object oriented language(s).
  • Experience working in a team with Agile/Scrum methodology
  • Experience leading the build and scale of mission critical platform components 
  • Experience of tackling complex and ambiguous problems, communicate clearly with others to solve the problem, and share knowledge to help the whole team succeed
  • Proficient in balancing getting things done with platform stability
  • Passionate about writing awesome code and delivering impactful scalable solutions
  • Hands-on mentoring of other engineers.

Our Spread* of Total Rewards

  • 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.

Our Tech Stack

Toast’s products run on a stack that ranges from guest and restaurant-facing Android tablets to backend services in Java to internal, guest-facing and restaurant-facing web apps. Our backend services follow a microservice architecture written using Java 8 and DropWizard; we use AWS extensively, ranging from S3 to RDS to Lambda. We have our own platform for dealing with user management, service elevations and robust load balancing. Toast stores data in a set of sharded Postgres databases and utilizes Apache Spark for large scale data workloads including query and batch processing. The front-end is built primarily using React and ES6. The main Toast POS application is an Android application written in Java and Kotlin. For data between tablets and our cloud platform we operate RabbitMQ clusters as well as direct tablet communication to the back end.

Toast uses .Net/C# and Java for the backend. The front-end is primarily written in MVC, React and Angular. We also use SQL Server/Aurora postgres for our database. Other technologies include SQS, SNS, Dynamo, SageMaker, Cloudwatch, Redshift, etc.

We are Toasters

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

At Toast our employees are our secret ingredient. When they are powered to succeed, Toast succeeds.

The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse industries. We embrace and are excited by this diversity, believing that only through authenticity, inclusivity, high standards of respect and trust, and leading with humility will we be able to achieve our goals.

Baking inclusive principles into our company and diversity into our design provides equitable opportunities for all and enhances our ability to be first in class in all aspects of our industry.

Ready to rise with us? Apply today!


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. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.

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].

Top Skills

Spark
AWS
Azure
DynamoDB
GCP
Java
Kotlin
Postgres
RabbitMQ
React
SQL Server

Similar Jobs at Toast

8 Days Ago
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
Senior level
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Food • Information Technology • Software • Hospitality
The role involves designing, implementing and maintaining a secure Workday security model, managing HR data security, and developing governance processes while collaborating with business leaders.
Top Skills: Workday
11 Days Ago
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
Senior level
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Food • Information Technology • Software • Hospitality
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will architect and scale Toast's mobile solutions, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to deliver high-quality features.
Top Skills: AlamofireAWSCloudkitCombineCore DataDatadogDynamoDBFirebaseGraphQLJavaKotlinPostgresSentrySplunkSwiftSwiftuiXctestXcuitest
14 Days Ago
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
Senior level
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Food • Information Technology • Software • Hospitality
The Senior Backend Software Engineer will design and maintain backend systems, optimize performance, lead projects, mentor junior engineers, and align technical decisions with business outcomes.
Top Skills: AWSDockerJavaKafkaKotlinKubernetesPostgresSpring Boot

What you need to know about the Pune Tech Scene

Once a far-out concept, AI is now a tangible force reshaping industries and economies worldwide. While its adoption will automate some roles, AI has created more jobs than it has displaced, with an expected 97 million new roles to be created in the coming years. This is especially true in cities like Pune, which is emerging as a hub for companies eager to leverage this technology to develop solutions that simplify and improve lives in sectors such as education, healthcare, finance, e-commerce and more.

Sign up now Access later

Create Free Account

Please log in or sign up to report this job.

Create Free Account