Staff Software Engineer, International

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 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, we are building the core systems to launch Toast into new markets. You will join a high‑impact, high‑ownership engineering team solving complex technical challenges in a fast‑paced environment. We are looking for leadership that balances technical excellence with a strong product mindset to drive continuous growth for both the team and our platform.

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• Lead complex projects within a cross‑functional collaborative and supportive environment.
  
• Orchestrate our backend services to support internationalization working across software both in the restaurant and the cloud.
  
• Design, build, deploy and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems critical to our customers’ success.
  
• Iterate on our technical approach to data management in support of our international strategy.
  
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to team members, leading technical discussions and promoting best engineering practices.
  
• Work directly with pilot customers (sometimes in the restaurant!) to ensure successful delivery and operation.
  
• Advocate for best coding practices, raising the bar for yourself, your team, and the company.
  
• 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.
  

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• 8+ years of experience delivering high‑quality, reliable services to production using Java, Kotlin or other object‑oriented language(s).
  
• Proven track record of architecting, supporting and debugging large distributed and multi‑threaded applications.
  
• Drive to work across our tech stack and support other engineers in resolving challenging problems.
  
• Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild.
  
• Ability to embrace an agile mindset focused on delivering usable software.
  
• Experience with fiscalisation, internationalization is a plus.
  

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• Core Java & Kotlin based backend services.
  
• React SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook.
  
• Android app built in Java & Kotlin running in the restaurant.
  
• PostgreSQL and DynamoDB as core persistence.
  
• Pulsar, Camel and RabbitMQ for message‑based integrations.
  
• And many more technologies that help us build a top‑class platform.
  

This is a hybrid role requiring in‑office collaboration two days per week in our Dublin office.

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