Senior Software Engineer, Delivery Services

Location: Remote within Canada — applicants must be based in Ontario, BC, Alberta, or Manitoba.

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.

The Toast Delivery Services team enables restaurants to build thriving, profitable first party delivery channels while growing Toast's consumer business. As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in enabling seamless integrations with third-party delivery providers, helping restaurants offer direct delivery through Toast’s Online Ordering channels. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a high-impact service focused on optimizing experiences for our restaurants and the customers who order from them.

About this roll* - As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will:

• Design, scope, and implement cutting-edge solutions using a mix of technologies.

• Review code to ensure that technical implementation meets functional requirements, as well as our high standards for code quality and testing

• Ensure that our systems are performant, scalable, resilient and highly available

• Mentor and guide junior engineers

• Collaborate closely with Design and Product stakeholders to ensure we are building the right solutions to the right problems

• Identify high-impact opportunities with your team and turn them into reality.

• Be an awesome teammate who’s all-in on collaboration and collective success.

• Work across teams to ensure that every part of our product ecosystem works seamlessly together, to deliver the best possible experience for our customers

Do you have the right ingredients*?

• 5+ years experience building and shipping production-ready full stack applications, including modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, JavaScript/TypeScript) and backend services (Java, Kotlin, Scala, or other object-oriented languages)

• Understanding of distributed event-driven systems

• Proven track record of technical leadership and collaboration on complex projects

• Hands-on experience building full stack applications using Java, Kotlin, Scala, or other object oriented language(s)

• Expertise in database schema design; Familiarity with DynamoDB not required but a plus

• Passionate about solving complex problems and delivering impactful, scalable solutions

• Respectful, empathetic, and humble

• Has a growth mindset with an emphasis on improving yourself and your team

• Balances getting things done with platform stability

AI at Toast

At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture.

Our Total Rewards Philosophy
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.

The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills and experience. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions, if eligible), benefits, and equity (if eligible).

Pay Range
$115,000—$165,000 CAD

How Toast Uses AI in its Hiring Process

Throughout the hiring process, our goal is to get to know you. We use AI tools to support our recruiters and interviewers with tasks like note-taking, summarization, and documentation of interviews to ensure they can be fully focused on your conversation. All hiring decisions are made by people.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.

We Thrive Together

We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.

Apply today!

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].

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