Senior Software Engineer - Backend (Java)

Job Description

Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features across Toast s Enterprise line-of-products. Lead complex projects that may span multiple teams & systems. Collaborate with PM, UX & QA, and other engineers, on the development of new features & products. Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast. Drive high-quality team output and ensure that the team makes solid technical decisions. Collaborate with peer engineers, provide design feedback, and participate in code reviews. Champion best practices for SDLC & CICD life-cycles. Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes. Rollfeatures out to customers, ensuring successful delivery and operation, including monitoring for success and/or failures. Mentor & coach your peer engineers. Do you have the right ingredients* (Requirements) 5+ years experience building backend services and RESTFUL APIs. Proficiency in Object Oriented Programming Languages such as Java, Kotlin etc. Have strong understanding & hands-on experience of building fault-tolerant, highly-scalable & secure distributed systems. Proficiency with sql/nosql databases, strong understanding of distributed datastores and knowledge of when to use what. Strong foundations in data structures & algorithms. Passion for building great software products. You demonstrate humility, empathy and respectfulness. Deep understanding of testing, quality, and proficiency in SDLC best practices. Proficiency in testing applications & delivering high-quality, reliable apps to production. Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics. Experience working with Cloud Infrastructure (AWS or similar). Special Sauce (Nice to Haves) Have knowledge and hands-on experience of building Android applications. We are hiring individuals with a wide range of experience so if you have more or less than these exact roles, please still apply! What we use to make our dish: (Our Tech Stack) Android apps built using Kotlin & Java. Backend services which follow a microservice architecture written using Kotlin, Java and DropWizard Event driven messaging & streaming using Apache Pulsar & RabbitMQ. Apache Camel for implementing Enterprise Integration Pattern. React & ES6 based Frontend SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook. DynamoDb & Postgres as core persistence data-storage layers. Datadog & Sentry for system and application metric and monitoring. Splunk for log aggregation. FireHydrant for alerting.