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You’ll lead complex, cross‑functional projects, designing, building, deploying and maintaining highly resilient, scalable backend services, while mentoring teammates and collaborating directly with pilot restaurant customers. You’ll also champion best coding practices and leverage AI tools to boost development velocity.
8+ years building reliable Java/Kotlin services, proven experience architecting and debugging large distributed, multithreaded systems, and a track record of supporting peers across the stack. A passion for delighting users, an agile delivery mindset, and (optional) experience with internationalization or global launches.
The role drives Toast’s expansion onto the global stage by delivering the core platform that enables restaurants to operate, grow and keep employees happy. Your work directly impacts customer success and the company’s growth trajectory.
Senior engineers who thrive on technical leadership, mentorship, and solving complex distributed problems, and who enjoy occasional on‑site customer interaction. Candidates comfortable with a hybrid Dublin office and eager to shape a global hospitality platform.
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 mission to expand globally, we are building what it takes to help our customers thrive. You will join a high-impact, high-ownership engineering team solving complex technical challenges. We are looking for leadership that balances technical excellence with a strong customer mindset to drive continuous growth for both the team and our platform.
A day in the life (Responsibilities)
What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)
Experience with internationalization or global product launches is a plus
Our Tech Stack
**This is a hybrid role requiring in-office collaboration two days per week in our Dublin office.**
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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.
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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.
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