Software Engineer I - Timekeeping

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 labor cost and timekeeping platforms - systems that directly influence labor spend for more than 166,000 restaurant locations. You’ll work on highly visible, mission-critical infrastructure supporting millions of employees and operators across Toast restaurants.

In this role, you’ll gain hands-on experience with large-scale, data-intensive systems. We’ve processed over a billion of shift records and are in the midst of an exciting architecture modernization to support rapid growth and faster development. We are operating at true scale, pushing the limits of our databases. If you’re excited to lay the technical foundation for the next generation of labor cost management—and to help restaurant operators save real money—we’d love to hear from you.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

• Help shape our next-generation timekeeping systems that operate at massive scale, processing tens of millions of shift events every week.
• Build, run, and improve core backend systems 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 and operating reliable systems at scale.
• Ship code that directly impacts Toast’s growth and the day-to-day operations of restaurant teams
• 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
• 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)

• 1+ year of experience with Java, Kotlin, or similar - This is a junior level role.
• 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 projects and build systems that operate at massive scale.

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.