Senior Software Engineer, Identity & Access Management

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. 

And because our technology is purpose-built for restaurants, by restaurant people, restaurants can trust that we’ll deliver on their needs for today while investing in experiences that will power their restaurant of the future.

Are you bready* for a change? 

Toast is looking for a highly-motivated and organised Senior Software Engineer to join our Identity & Access Management team in the Cloud Services & Infrastructure organization to play a critical role in developing reliable code and algorithms in our user management, permission, and web services.  We are looking for an engineer with previous experience in this space, who has the ability and drive to lead and make an impact, not only on their own but by also enabling those around them to succeed. Partnering with stakeholders, product managers, product designers, product data analysts, and other engineers, you will be part of a team responsible for ensuring that our practices in the development of our platform are safe and secure. You will also be responsible for developing and maintaining core services and repositories in Toast, including integrations, managing users, authentication, and permissions. 

The Toast platform processes tens of millions of requests per day, and this number grows constantly as we add new restaurants and integration partners to our system. The services we develop on this team are essential for Toast’s operation and their resilience and reliability are crucial from a business and user perspective. 

If you want to help create something tangible that is used every day, help small businesses achieve their vision, and take on the challenge of scaling a SaaS product from millions of users to hundreds of millions of users, Toast is the place for you. 

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

• Be part of a team working collaboratively with UX, PM, QA and other engineers designing, building and maintaining high performance, flexible and highly scalable microservices for user management, permission, and web services, as well as development of associated web and mobile applications 
• Define best practices and help choose technologies to evolve our current tech. stack while writing world-class applications 
• Champion best practices such as quality integration and unit testing 
• Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementations meet requirements 
• Ensure that all work done is delivered with quality and is appropriately monitored and supported in production 
• Mentoring other team members

Work Mode: This role follows a hybrid work model, requiring a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements) 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years experience building backend services and APIs
• Experience delivering high quality, reliable services to production using Java, Kotlin or other object oriented language(s) 
• Experience in the Authentication or Authorisation domains
• Proficient in Software Development best practices (Code Quality, UnitTest, BDD)
• Experience leading a team in the Agile/Scrum methodology 
• Experience supporting and debugging a large multi threaded application. 
• Enjoys and is passionate about building well-engineered, usable and accessible systems 
• Exposure to distributed systems, scaling challenges, SaaS, SQL, JS, & Pulsar are a plus. 

Preferred Bonus Ingredients*? (Good to have)

• Experience of Javascript and modern web standards and technologies (e.g. HTML5, React, GraphQL) 
• Not required, but previous experience with Android/mobile development would also be a plus