We’re looking for an engineer to help build and scale Toast’s earnings platform — systems that calculate tips and employee earnings for restaurant locations across Toast’s network

You’ll work on highly visible, mission-critical infrastructure that powers Tips Manager, one of Toast’s growing products, while laying the groundwork for a broader earnings calculation platform that will determine paychecks for employees everywhere Toast operates In this role, you’ll gain hands‑on experience with event‑driven systems built on Kotlin, gRPC, Apache Pulsar, and DynamoDB

We’re building a new source of truth for employee earnings — from real‑time tip pooling and redistribution to wage calculation and earnings retrieval — and we care deeply about getting the math right: our systems directly influence what employees take home

Help shape our tip and earnings calculation platform — building the systems that determine how restaurant employees are paid, starting with Tips Manager and expanding toward a full earnings source of truth

Build, run, and improve core backend services alongside a collaborative, supportive team

Be a part of the organization with a solid focus on engineering culture and full end-to-end ownership

Participate across the full development lifecycle — design, estimation, implementation, testing, debugging, and deployment — while learning and applying best practices for building correct, reliable calculation systems at scale





Ship code that directly impacts Tips Manager revenue and the accuracy of earnings for restaurant employees across Toast’s network

Partner with product and design to influence what we build and how we build it

Participate in thoughtful code reviews, both giving and receiving feedback

Benefits

Peer and company recognition programs

Unlimited Vacation

Sabbatical opportunity after five years

Professional Development Reimbursement Program

Commitment to Employee Wellness through resources such as a quarterly Wellness Stipend

Various peer and company recognition programs

401(k) and matching

Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage

Mental Health Benefits

Subsidized backup childcare

If you’re excited to build calculation infrastructure where correctness and scale matter in equal measure, and where the work has a real impact on product revenue and employee livelihoods, we’d love to hear from you

Ability and motivation to learn quickly and apply knowledge to solve real problems

Willingness to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system performance through logging and metrics

Above all, we’re looking for a strong engineer with solid fundamentals A hunger to take on challenging problems where correctness and scale go hand in hand

Experience with one or more object‑oriented programming languages (such as Java, Kotlin, or similar)

An appreciation for precision and correctness — when the output drives someone’s paycheck, getting the calculation right matters

📌 Software Engineer (Earnings) (Winnipeg)
🏢 Toast
📍 Winnipeg