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 a rapidly growing company that's revolutionizing how the restaurant industry does business by pairing technology with an extraordinary commitment to customer success. We help restaurants streamline operations, increase revenue, and deliver amazing guest experiences through our platform that combines restaurant point of sale, team management, guest-facing technology, and award-winning customer support. Join us as we empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive.
We're looking for an engineer to help build and scale Toast's earnings platform — systems that calculate tips and employee earnings for restaurant locations across Toast's network. You'll work on highly visible, mission-critical infrastructure that powers Tips Manager, one of Toast's growing products, while laying the groundwork for a broader earnings calculation platform that will determine paychecks for employees everywhere Toast operates.
In this role, you'll gain hands-on experience with event-driven systems built on Kotlin, gRPC, Apache Pulsar, and DynamoDB. We're building a new source of truth for employee earnings — from real-time tip pooling and redistribution to wage calculation and earnings retrieval — and we care deeply about getting the math right: our systems directly influence what employees take home. If you're excited to build calculation infrastructure where correctness and scale matter in equal measure, and where the work has a real impact on product revenue and employee livelihoods, we'd love to hear from you.
About this roll*:
As a Software Engineer on our team, you will:
- Help shape our tip and earnings calculation platform — building the systems that determine how restaurant employees are paid, starting with Tips Manager and expanding toward a full earnings source of truth.
- Build, run, and improve core backend services alongside a collaborative, supportive team.
- Be a part of the organization with a strong focus on engineering culture and full end-to-end ownership.
- Participate across the full development lifecycle — design, estimation, implementation, testing, debugging, and deployment — while learning and applying best practices for building correct, reliable calculation systems at scale.
- Ship code that directly impacts Tips Manager revenue and the accuracy of earnings for restaurant employees across Toast's network.
- Partner with product and design to influence what we build and how we build it.
- Participate in thoughtful code reviews, both giving and receiving feedback.
Do you have the right ingredients*?
- Experience with one or more object-oriented programming languages (such as Java, Kotlin, or similar).
- An appreciation for precision and correctness — when the output drives someone's paycheck, getting the calculation right matters.
- Willingness to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system performance through logging and metrics.
- Ability and motivation to learn quickly and apply knowledge to solve real problems.
- A hunger to take on challenging problems where correctness and scale go hand in hand.
Above all, we’re looking for a strong engineer with solid fundamentals.
This role is for a current vacancy.
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.
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.
The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills, experience, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible), equity, and 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-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 otherwise in advance. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring
Our Approach to Hybrid Working
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 hospitality community, regardless of location. Please visit the Locations page on our career site to learn more about our in-office expectations by region: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast
People Are the Secret Ingredient in Our Recipe for Success
At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry brings together people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we value that same breadth at Toast. We strive to build a culture grounded in authenticity, respect, and humility, where every Toaster has a real opportunity to grow, contribute, and do their best work—raising the bar in delivering exceptional experiences for our customers and each other.
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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].
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Toast San Francisco, California, USA Office
Our first west coast office, opened in 2022, is just a few blocks from the water and the Bay Bridge. Surrounded by restaurants, shopping, and tech companies alike, San Francisco is the place to be!
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