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 looking for a Senior Software engineer to join our enterprise quick service restaurant team. You will get to work across the entire Toast platform, including our POS, backend, and front end systems. As a member of the enterprise team, you will help ensure that the product is being built to meet the new and expanding needs of these customers.

Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers

Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes

Roll* features out to customers, including monitoring for success

Collaborate with UX and PM on the definition and design of features

5+ years experience building backend services and APIs

Extensive experience working with an Object Oriented Language like Java or Kotlin, with a deep understanding of testing, quality, and best practices

Experience shipping production services and balancing getting things done with platform stability and reliability

Experience building backend services and APIs and scaling distributed systems

Experience building android applications with kotlin is a plus

Experience building front end applications is a plus

Focused on delivering positive impact for Toast customers

Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics

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 advantages programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry.

In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible), equity, and benefits.

115,000—$165,000 CAD 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. We ask that you complete interviews and assessments on your own, without real-time AI tools, recording, or transcription bots, unless we tell you otherwise in advance. 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: The restaurant industry brings together people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we value that same breadth at Toast. We strive to build a culture grounded in authenticity, respect, and humility, where every Toaster has a real opportunity to grow, contribute, and do their best work—raising the bar in delivering exceptional experiences for our customers and each other.

As part of this commitment, we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. #

📌 Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Backend & API Lead (Toronto)
🏢 Toast
📍 Toronto