R & D : Engineering : Shared
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.
The New Ventures team explores new opportunities and builds products that address meaningful customer needs. We work in a small, collaborative team, partnering across Toast to move quickly from ideas to working software and learn from customer feedback. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build a new AI-powered product. In this role, you will design, build, and own backend services, integrations, and product capabilities. You will work closely with engineering, Product, and Design to turn evolving requirements into reliable, maintainable software, using AI-assisted development as an integral part of your work.
A day in the life (Responsibilities)
- Design, build, and own backend services and APIs that support new product capabilities.
- Build and maintain integrations across Toast’s internal services and external systems.
- Develop LLM-powered features, including connecting models to tools and APIs and handling unexpected outputs or failures.
- Write automated tests and contribute evaluation cases that verify AI-powered features complete their intended tasks and continue to work as the product evolves.
- Use AI-assisted development tools extensively for implementation, testing, debugging, and refactoring, while reviewing and validating the resulting changes.
- Participate in code reviews, monitor feature rollouts, respond to incidents, and iterate based on performance d