Principal Software Engineer – Backend & Analytics
Location: Chennai
Work Mode: Hybrid
Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.
Are you bready* for a change?
Toast is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to take responsibility for bringing our architecture to the next level and level up the team. As well as providing a cutting edge point of sale system for restaurants, Toast also processes billions of dollars of payments, and offers best-in-class financial service solutions to our customers. As we grow our solutions to meet the needs of our customers, we are also focused on optimizing for extensibility, resilience and scalability, using continuous delivery tools & methodology.Join us to improve our platform and add the next generation of products.
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
As a Principal Software Engineer on our team, you will:
Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)
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Our Tech Stack
Toast’s products run on a stack that ranges from guest and restaurant-facing Android tablets to backend services in Java to internal, guest-facing and restaurant-facing web apps. Our backend services follow a microservice architecture written using Java 8 and DropWizard; we use AWS extensively, ranging from S3 to RDS to Lambda. We have our own platform for dealing with user management, service elevations and robust load balancing. Toast stores data in a set of sharded Postgres databases and utilizes Apache Spark for large scale data workloads including query and batch processing. The front-end is built primarily using React and ES6. The main Toast POS application is an Android application written in Java and Kotlin. For data between tablets and our cloud platform we operate RabbitMQ clusters as well as direct tablet communication to the back end.
Toast uses .Net/C# and Java for the backend. The front-end is primarily written in MVC, React and Angular. We also use SQL Server/Aurora postgres for our database. Other technologies include SQS, SNS, Dynamo, SageMaker, Cloudwatch, Redshift, etc.
We are Toasters
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success.
At Toast our employees are our secret ingredient. When they are powered to succeed, Toast succeeds.
The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse industries. We embrace and are excited by this diversity, believing that only through authenticity, inclusivity, high standards of respect and trust, and leading with humility will we be able to achieve our goals.
Baking inclusive principles into our company and diversity into our design provides equitable opportunities for all and enhances our ability to be first in class in all aspects of our industry.
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Bready* to make a change? Apply today!
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