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.

Independently design, develop and implement features across the full stack with minimal guidance.

Develop and maintain backend services using Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin or .NET.

Build and enhance frontend applications using React or Angular.

Maintain a balanced full-stack contribution, with approximately 70–80% backend and 20–30% frontend development.

Apply object-oriented programming principles, appropriate design patterns and clean coding practices.

Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, production issues and application defects.

Demonstrate practical understanding of multithreading, concurrency and data consistency.

Participate in code reviews, testing and engineering quality improvements.

Collaborate with Product Managers, UX designers, QA and engineering teams.

Take ownership of assigned features from requirements through development, testing and production release.

Use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor or similar tools to improve engineering productivity and quality.

Communicate progress, risks, technical decisions and dependencies effectively.

A minimum of Bachelor’s degree in any area, or any other related discipline.

- 6+ years of experience in software or full-stack development.
- Strong hands-on experience with frontend frameworks such as React or Angular.
- Proven professional hands-on experience developing backend applications using Java and Spring Boot, or an accepted equivalent such as Kotlin or .NET.
- Practical working knowledge of Core Java, OOP, collections, exception handling and design patterns.




- Practical understanding of thread safety, synchronisation, race conditions and concurrent data access.
- Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs.
- Professional experience contributing to LLD, HLD or application architecture.
- Working Experience in SQL and NoSQL databases, including basic schema design and querying.
- Must have hands-on skilled working experience with AWS and Amazon DynamoDB in production applications.
- Experience integrating Java/Spring Boot microservices with DynamoDB.
- Demonstrated ability to independently solve coding problems using appropriate data structures and algorithms
- Working knowledge of multithreading and concurrent programming.
- Solid problem-solving skills and attention to code quality.
- Experience designing and implementing maintainable software components.

Exposure to AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Devin).

Basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.

Experience working in a large-scale SaaS or product engineering environment.

AI at Toast

We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. 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. LI-HYBRID

How Toast Uses AI in its Hiring Process

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. 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. 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: 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.

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 View email address on careers.toasttab.com employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

📌 Senior Software Engineer - Java Full Stack Hybrid (Chennai)
🏢 Toast
📍 Chennai