Senior/Staff Software Engineer at Toast in Remote Canada
- Company: Toast
- Location: Remote Canada
- Posted: Sep 24, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Salary: $142,000—$227,000 CAD
- Experience: 5+ years
Overview
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. End-to-End Product Execution: Design, build, and ship complete features across the stack—from resilient backend s…
Job description
- 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.
Responsibilities
- End-to-End Product Execution: Design, build, and ship complete features across the stack—from resilient backend services and APIs to intuitive, responsive web interfaces.
- Architect & Build: Create highly reliable, scalable systems using Java, Kotlin, and modern frontend frameworks (React, TypeScript) critical to Toast's core platform.
- 0-to-1 & Scaled Execution: Drive net-new product development and tackle complex scaling challenges to keep our platforms fast, decoupled, and seamless for users.
- Technical Leadership & Quality: Turn ambiguous business goals into high-quality, production-ready code. Advocate for engineering best practices, robust testing, and deep system observability across the entire tech stack.
- Engineering Excellence: Elevate code quality across teams and mentor engineers to help raise the overall technical bar.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building production-grade web applications and distributed systems.
- Strong proficiency with Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented languages.
- Hands-on experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, TypeScript) and a strong understanding of web architecture and UI state management.
- Experience with modern API design (REST, GraphQL) and relational databases or alternative data stores (e.g., PostgreSQL, DynamoDB).
- Proven ability to solve complex, ambiguous problems and collaborate across product, design, and engineering teams.
- Ability to work core EST hours if not located near a Toast office.
- A passion for removing "human-in-the-loop" friction through intelligent automation.
Skills
Required
- Java
- Kotlin
- Object-oriented programming
- React
- TypeScript
- REST
- GraphQL
- PostgreSQL
- DynamoDB
- Web architecture
- UI state management
- Distributed systems
Preferred
- Intelligent automation
- Removing human-in-the-loop friction
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.
- $142,000—$227,000 CAD
About Toast
Engineers at Toast build the mission-critical foundation that powers thousands of restaurants and local businesses every single day. From real-time order processing and resilient payment infrastructure to automated intelligent workflows, our technology solves high-stakes, real-world problems at scale. We value high technical standards, hands-on execution, collaborative problem-solving, and building systems that directly impact our customers' 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.