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Toast

Staff Software Engineer, Backend – Payments

Toast

. Plan, design, build, and deliver features for Toast’s payments products .

Posted 3/28/2026full-timeBoston • Massachusetts, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $168,000 - $269,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
Microservices

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Plan, design, build, and deliver features for Toast’s payments products
  • Plan, develop, and implement best practices such as automated test suites to ensure the code shipped to our customers meets the highest quality standards
  • Roll - pun intended! - features out to customers, including monitoring for success
  • Collaborate with our PM (and UX) on the definition and design of features
  • Collaborate and partner with a wide array of teams across Toast in order to spread knowledge inter- and intra-team
  • Lead and work with experienced engineers to deliver design and code review

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 8+ years of experience in designing and implementing robust backend services
  • Ability to step into a technical leadership role on the team, guiding/coaching/mentor more junior engineers on best practices in architecture, design, coding, testing, deployment, etc.
  • Proven ability to design and develop scalable and secure APIs that integrate with various internal/external systems
  • Applied knowledge of best practices in API lifecycle management, including versioning, documentation, and deprecation strategies, with the ability to share this amongst the team and peers
  • Demonstrated experience with microservices architecture and containerization technologies for enhanced scalability and maintainability.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.

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Hard Skills & Tools
backend servicesAPIsmicroservices architecturecontainerization technologiesautomated test suitesarchitecture designcodingtestingdeploymentAPI lifecycle management
Soft Skills
technical leadershipguidingcoachingmentoringcollaborationknowledge sharing