Software Engineer (IQ Grow)

• At Toast, the IQ Grow team is on a mission to scale new, high-impact go-to-market initiatives
• By combining the cutting-edge innovation of AI agentic solutions with human-in-the-loop workflows and touchpoints, we are redefining how restaurants connect with their guests
• Our goal is to deliver a truly personalized marketing experience that empowers Toast customers to build lasting relationships, drive engagement and grow their businesses
• If you’re excited about pioneering at the intersection of advanced AI and human-centered design to make a real-world impact, we’d love to have you on the team!
• You will 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
• 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
• —-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

Benefits

• Peer and company recognition programs
• Unlimited Vacation
• Sabbatical opportunity after five years
• Professional Development Reimbursement Program
• Commitment to Employee Wellness through resources such as a quarterly Wellness Stipend
• Various peer and company recognition programs
• 401(k) and matching
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage
• Subsidized backup childcare
• Mental Health Benefits- Excited about AI-assisted development and LLM-based agents (Claude Code or similar), and interested in pioneering new workflows with the team
• Curiosity and a growth mindset: you seek feedback, embrace change, and want to grow toward broader ownership
• Comfortable reading and integrating with frontend applications and curious to work across the stack when needed
• 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 collaboration skills: you communicate clearly with engineers, product, and business stakeholders, and adapt technical detail to the audience
• Strong on software development fundamentals — code quality, unit tests, clean code — and open to evolving your workflow with AI tooling
• Kotlin/Java experience, delivering products that drive impact