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Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Senior level
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Senior level
As a Staff Engineer, you will develop backend systems for Accounts Payable, enhance user interfaces, automate processes, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
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STAFF ENGINEER (Accounts Payable)

Toast is a technology company that specializes in providing a comprehensive all-in-one SaaS product and financial  technology solutions tailored for the restaurant industry. Toast offers a suite of tools to help restaurants manage their operations, including point of sale, payment processing, supplier management, digital ordering and delivery, marketing and loyalty, employee scheduling and team management. The platform is designed to streamline operations, enhance customer experiences, and improve overall efficiency for the restaurants. 


Are you bready* for a change?

As a Staff Engineer on the Accounts Payable team you will be responsible for developing and maintaining back-end systems that support AP operations, automating processes, enhancing user interfaces, and integrating various systems. In this role, you will work on architecting, developing, and maintaining backend systems and services that support our business and technical goals. You will collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality, scalable, and reliable backend solutions.

Join us to improve our platform and add the next generation of products. 


About this roll* (Responsibilities)

As a Staff Engineer on our team, you will:

  • Be part of a team working collaboratively with UX, PM, QA and other engineers designing, building and maintaining high performance, flexible and highly scalable Saas applications
  • Lead technical initiatives, mentor junior engineers, and provide guidance on best practices for backend development. Champion design reviews and help drive the technical direction of the team.
  • Develop automated workflows for invoice processing, payment approvals, and vendor management.
  • Optimize query performance and ensure data integrity within large datasets.
  • Implement machine learning or Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to streamline data extraction from invoices and minimize manual intervention.
  • Lead, mentor and coach engineers  on best in class industry standard development best practices
  • Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure that developed solutions are scalable, reliable, and secure.
  • Use cutting-edge technologies and best practices to optimize for performance and usability, ultimately enhancing the overall restaurant management experience.
  • Advocate best coding practices to raise the bar for you, your team and the company
  • Dedicated to building a high-quality, reliable, and high-performing framework for reporting, analytics, and insights on toast platform
  • Document solution design, write & review code, test and rollout solutions to production, 
  • Work with PM in capturing & actioning customer feedback to iteratively enhance customer experience
  • Propose and implement improvements to enhance system efficiency, scalability, and user experience.
  • Present findings and insights to senior leadership and stakeholders.
  • Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild.
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Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

  • 8+ years of hands on experience delivering high quality, reliable services / software development using C#, Java, Kotlin or other object-oriented languages 
  • Build and maintain RESTful APIs, GraphQL endpoints, or other integrations with internal and external services.
  • Design, optimize, and maintain relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases (SQL Server, Postgres, DynamoDB). Work on data modeling, query optimization, and performance tuning.
  • Identify bottlenecks, optimize application performance, and scale backend systems to handle high traffic and large data volumes.
  • Strong experience with automated testing (unit, integration, end-to-end tests) and test-driven development (TDD).
  • Proficient with data warehousing solutions such as Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery.
  • Experience working in a team with Agile/Scrum methodology
  • Must have experience supporting and debugging large distributed applications.
  • Experience in monitoring, troubleshooting, and improve system performance through logging and metrics
  • Familiarity  with data platforms to process large datasets for scalable data processing will be a plus
  • Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify, diagnose, and resolve complex technical issues.
  • Excellent communication skills to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Self-motivated, with a passion for learning and staying current with new technologies.
  • A minimum of a bachelor's degree is required.
  • This role follows a hybrid work model, requiring a minimum of two days per week in the office



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

BigQuery
C#
DynamoDB
GraphQL
Java
Kotlin
NoSQL
Postgres
Redshift
Restful Apis
Snowflake
SQL
SQL Server

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