Toast is driven by building the all-in-one restaurant platform that helps restaurants operate their business, increase sales, engage guests, and keep employees happy. Toast’s services are the central pillar of Toast’s restaurant management products allowing millions of restaurant owners, hosts, managers and chefs to run their business successfully with user-friendly functionality covering everything from menu creation to marketing to financial management.

Are you bready* for a change?

Toast is looking for a Tech Lead (Staff) Full stack Engineer to join our new Upsells platform team in Dublin. This team is creating a new platform within Toast for smart upsell suggestions using Generative AI models and agents. This platform helps staff in real time with upsell suggestions and approaches and helps restaurant owners, managers and other roles to create and manage high quality upsell suggestions using our generative AI tools.

Partnering with stakeholders, product managers, product designers, and other engineers, you will be part of a team developing best-in-class solutions that create a unified, seamless experience that meets our standard for customer delight, ease of use, security, and scalability.

If you want to be at the forefront of creating something tangible that is used every day to help restaurants worldwide achieve their vision, then Toast is the place for you.

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

Lead a team of talented engineers technically - working collaboratively with UX, PM, QA and other engineers building web applications using modern web technologies
Define best practices and help choose technologies to evolve our current tech stack while writing world-class applications
Championing best practices such as quality integration and unit testing
Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementations meet requirements
Ensure that all work done by the team is delivered with quality and is appropriately monitored and supported in production
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.
Mentor other team members

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

Minimum of 8+ years experience in Java or Kotlin
Must have hands on experience with JavaScript/Typescript (We use React)
Must have experience at staff/tech lead level, leading large scale technical projects
Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics
Proficient with NoSQL and traditional databases
Experience with modern web standards and technologies (e.g. React, Typescript)
Proficient in Software Development best practices (Code Quality, UnitTest, BDD)
Experience delivering high quality, reliable services to production
Experience building android applications with Kotlin is a plus
Passionate about building great software
Prior experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems or microservices is a plus

**This is a hybrid role, requiring two days per week in the Dublin office**

AI at Toast

At Toast 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 Spread* of Total Rewards
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.

*Bread puns encouraged but not required

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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.

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Tech Lead - Full Stack Software Engineering

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