Python developer

Staff Software Engineer (Accounts Payable)

Company Overview:

Toast is a technology company that provides an all-in-one SaaS product and financial technology solutions tailored for the restaurant industry. Toast’s platform includes tools for point of sale, payment processing, supplier management, digital ordering and delivery, marketing and loyalty, employee scheduling, and team management. Our mission is to streamline operations, enhance customer experiences, and improve overall efficiency for restaurants.

Are you bready for a change?

As a Staff Engineer on the Accounts Payable team, you will develop and maintain back-end systems that support AP operations, automate processes, enhance user interfaces, and integrate various systems. You will collaborate closely with product managers, frontend engineers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality, scalable, and reliable backend solutions.

About This Role (Responsibilities):

As a Staff Engineer, you will:

• Work collaboratively with UX, PM, QA, and engineers to design, build, and maintain high-performance, flexible, and scalable SaaS applications.
• Lead technical initiatives, mentor junior engineers, and provide guidance on best practices for backend development.
• Champion design reviews and help drive the technical direction of the team.
• Develop automated workflows for invoice processing, payment approvals, and vendor management.
• Optimize query performance and ensure data integrity within large datasets.
• Implement machine learning or Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to streamline data extraction from invoices.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, reliable, and secure by collaborating with other engineering teams.
• Advocate best coding practices to raise the bar for your team and the company.
• Build and maintain a high-quality, reliable framework for reporting, analytics, and insights on the Toast platform.
• Document solution designs, write & review code, test, and roll out solutions to production.
• Work with PMs to capture and act on customer feedback to iteratively enhance the customer experience.
• Propose and implement improvements to enhance system efficiency, scalability, and user experience.
• Present findings and insights to senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Passionate about delivering great user experiences and seeing your product used in real-world applications.

Do You Have the Right Ingredients? (Requirements)

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in software development using C#, Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented languages.
• Strong experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs, GraphQL endpoints, and integrations with internal and external services.
• Expertise in relational (SQL) and NoSQL databases such as SQL Server, Postgres, DynamoDB with experience in data modeling, query optimization, and performance tuning.
• Experience in scaling backend systems to handle high traffic and large data volumes.
• Strong experience with automated testing (unit, integration, end-to-end tests) and test-driven development (TDD).
• Proficiency with data warehousing solutions such as Snowflake, Redshift, or BigQuery.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
• Must have experience supporting and debugging large distributed applications.
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, troubleshooting, and improving system performance through logging and metrics.
• Familiarity with data platforms for scalable data processing is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues.
• Excellent communication skills to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Self-motivated, with a passion for continuous learning and staying up-to-date with new technologies.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

About the role:

You will own a functional area - from product conception to its delivery to customers. You are expected to design and code independently in multiple tech components related to your functional area. You must also develop a deep understanding of non-functional requirements, such as reliability and availability, scale, horizontal scalability, etc. over time to make tech stack decisions accordingly. You are expected to actively mentor junior engineers. You own

the codebase quality.

We are looking for seasoned engineers who are quality-conscious, product thinkers, business cognizant and smart. Engineers get to significantly amplify the impact of their work or creations with scale. The scale also demands that engineers to produce super-efficient solutions.

What you’ll do

• Strong experience with Java 8, Spring and Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data,
• Working experience in Microservices
• Version Control: Git
• Strong understanding of functional/reactive programming, OOP, design
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• SDLC: Working experience in Agile methodology
• Strong interpersonal skills and time management skills

What you’ll need

• B.Tech or M.Tech equivalent with at least 3 years of experience
• Deep expertise in at least one programming language & tech stack.
• Strong object-oriented design skills, ability to apply design patterns, and an uncanny ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
• Experience in building data-driven web application design and development is a plus
• Good understanding of multiple tech solutions and ability to pick the correct one for the given situation
• Prior work experience in an agile environment or continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI or CD)
• Ability and experience in designing high-level software designs of the scalable system, taking NFR (non-functional requirement) into consideration

• Experience of more than 4 to 6 years in software development.
• Very Strong Experience in Core Java.
• Excellent Java Programming skills Experience in Data Structures, Algorithms and Design Patterns.
• Strong in Problem solving, Analytical skill and logical thinking.
• Skill to be trained: java, spring, mango db, cassandra.
• Strong experience in Spring Boot, Restful API
• Looking for shorter notice period candidates only.

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