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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 revolutionizing the way 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, 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.

Who We Are

The Websites team is responsible for advancing and supporting Toast’s WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) editor for building and hosting websites to showcase the many diverse brands of Toast’s customers. In a highly competitive environment, this team is laser-focused on providing high-converting and truly customizable websites that are easy to build and maintain. We’re behind the websites of some of Toast’s most ambitious customers, like botiwalla.com, eggharbor.cafe, and tens of thousands more.

At the same time, we’re building agentic products that work hand-in-hand with the website builder to manage and grow customer websites by making data-backed recommendations to market their businesses online. These products make the intimidating world of SEO and online marketing approachable and automatic for Toast customers, meaning that they can focus on running their businesses while Toast’s Digital Growth Agent updates their websites using powerful data that helps them stand apart from the competition.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

In this role, you'll get to work on a wide variety of projects, using your technical chops to help Toast Websites’ customers build businesses that thrive online. This is a golden opportunity for a hands-on, entrepreneurial engineer who thrives in a modern tech stack environment, loves solving real-world problems through technology, and is a self-motivated learner. You’ll run experiments, iterate quickly, fix critical issues, and have a voice in shaping the future of online ordering and website building here at Toast. Here’s what you’ll be doing:

Design, scope, and implement cutting-edge solutions using a mix of technologies.
Enhance the platform to boost performance, usability, and scalability.
Collaborate closely with Design and Product stakeholders to ensure we are building the right solutions to the right problems.
Identify high-impact opportunities with your team and turn them into reality.
Be an awesome teammate who’s all in on collaboration and collective success.
Work across teams to ensure that every part of our product ecosystem works seamlessly together to deliver the best possible experience for our customers.
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.

What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

Experienced in developing full stack web applications
Experience with backend technologies like Node.js and Java/Kotlin.
Skilled with web fundamentals like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Familiarity with frontend frameworks like React or Angular, and CSS frameworks like Tailwind or Bootstrap is a plus.
Experienced with tools like Docker, Git, Bash/ZSH.
Thrive in a collaborative, team-based environment where you ship features together.
Passionate about writing testable and clean code, with experience in API design and unit/integration testing.
Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild.
Embrace the agile mindset—ship quickly, iterate, and refine.

AI at Toast

At Toast, one of our company values is that 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 Total Rewards Philosophy
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.

The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills, experience, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible), equity, and benefits. You can learn more about how we align pay with local labor markets in our Geographic Pay Zone Philosophy.

Pay Range

$92,000—$147,000 USD

How Toast Uses AI in its Hiring Process

Throughout the hiring process, our goal is to get to know you. 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. All hiring decisions are made by people. 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. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring

Our Approach to Hybrid Working

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 hospitality community, regardless of location. Please visit the Locations page on our career site to learn more about our in-office expectations by region: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast

People Are the Secret Ingredient in Our Recipe for Success

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. 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.

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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