Software Engineer II, IQ Grow

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. ## What you'll do be a key part of a high-impact, high-ownership engineering team solving complex challenges in a fast-moving product space, balancing technical excellence alongside a strong product mindset to solve for continuous growth. A day in the life (Responsibilities) - Design, build and maintain high performing, flexible, and scalable solutions that help restaurants deliver a best-in-class guest experience - Ship features end-to-end, from design through rollout, monitoring for success and iterating based on real-world use - Be an awesome teammate who's all in on collaboration and collective success - Collaborate closely with Product, Design and Engineering stakeholders - 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 ( ## What you'll bring ) - 2+ years of Kotlin/Java experience, delivering products that drive impact - Comfortable reading and integrating with frontend applications and curious to work across the stack when needed - Excited about AI-assisted development and LLM-based agents (Claude Code or similar), and interested in pioneering new workflows with the team - Effectively works with ambiguity, agile delivery, and shipping usable software incrementally - Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild - Strong on software development fundamentals — code quality, unit tests, clean code — and open to evolving your workflow with AI tooling - Strong collaboration skills: you communicate clearly with engineers, product, and business stakeholders, and adapt technical detail to the audience - Curiosity and a growth mindset: you seek feedback, embrace change, and want to grow toward broader ownership Our Tech Stack - A core of Java & Kotlin based backend services - React SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook. - Android app built in Java & Kotlin running in the restaurant - Claude Code and similar AI agentic development tools as part of daily engineering - PostgreSQL and DynamoDB as core persistence - And many more technologies that help us build a top class platform. **This is a hybrid role requiring in-office collaboration two days per week in our Dublin office.**   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! …

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