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 is a rapidly growing company that's revolutionizing how the restaurant industry does business by pairing technology with an extraordinary commitment to customer success. We help restaurants streamline operations, increase revenue, and deliver amazing guest experiences through our platform that combines restaurant point of sale, team management, guest-facing technology, and award-winning customer support.

Join us as we empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive. 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. 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. As a Software Engineer on our team, you will: 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. 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.

Experience with one or more object‑oriented programming languages (such as Java, Kotlin, or similar). Willingness to monitor, troubleshoot,



and improve system performance through logging and metrics. Above all, we’re looking for a strong engineer with solid fundamentals. Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building — contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team. AI at Toast

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; We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry.

How Toast

Uses AI in its Hiring Process

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. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the hospitality community, regardless of location. Please visit the Locations page on our career site to learn more about our in‑office expectations by region: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success 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. Our goal is to build a solid culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process.

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📌 Software Engineer (Sales) (Toronto)
🏢 Toast
📍 Toronto