Software Engineer I

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’s International UK team is looking for a Software Engineer I. This engineer will play a valuable role in developing best-in‑class product experiences for Toast’s growing UK customer base. You will work closely with the Design, Product and Customer teams to build solutions that best serve our UK customers.

As a member of the team, you will be surrounded by other talented engineers to learn from and level‑up your skills, as well as learn new technologies leveraged across the Toast technology stack.

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.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

• Design, build and deploy best-in-class product experiences that are used daily by our customers.
• Write clean, maintainable, well‑tested code across both backend and frontend applications.
• Collaborate across engineering, product and design to plan and execute on work.
• Take ownership of feature delivery, from design through implementation, testing, deployment and iteration.

What you’ll need to thrive (Requirements)

• Proficient in Java, Kotlin or another object‑oriented language, with an understanding of testing, quality & best practices.
• Proficiency with modern JavaScript technologies, such as React/Angular/Vue and TypeScript.
• Ability to embrace an agile mindset focused on delivering usable software.
• A passion for technology and continuous learning.
• Passionate about driving impact, through delivering meaningful software products, that our customers use everyday.

Special Sauce* (Nice to Haves)

• Experience levering AI‑assisted tools to accelerate development, and enhance productivity across the software development lifecycle.
• Familiarity building or integrating with GraphQL APIs.
• Familiarity with asynchronous communication tools (e.g., Pulsar, Kafka).

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Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected].