# Staff Software Engineer

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. As a Staff Engineer on the Catalog and Inventory team you will deliver significant products and core capabilities across teams, building the backend systems behind what our customers sell and stock. This is a hands-on role: most of your time is spent writing and reviewing code. You will be a domain expert in the product area, mentoring team members and enhancing the team’s effectiveness, and you will partner with Product Managers and UX Designers to turn roadmap goals into scalable services. If you enjoy owning hard backend problems, care about the quality of what you ship, and are a great collaborator, read on! A day in the life (Responsibilities) Write production code as your primary contribution, and hold the code review bar for the team. Conceive and lead the design and execution of efforts with broad customer impact on Toast’s catalog and inventory platform, across multiple teams as necessary. Enable your team to consistently measure, maintain and improve the customer experience across functio

- **Id**: 4067281
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/toast-staff-software-engineer-5>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chennai, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-16T04:25:27Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T11:58:13Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 56
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6764
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Hybrid work
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: POS Systems, Payment Processing & Gateways

## Company

- **Id**: 13243
- **Name**: Toast
- **Domain**: toasttab.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/toasttab>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 112
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.857
- **Repost share**: 0.018
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 32
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **DynamoDB** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Scala** — Optional: no
- **Scrum** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 56

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **India** — Iso: IN; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T11:58:13Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 28
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.788
- **P room**: 0.36
- **Age days**: 56
- **Expected fill days**: 32
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T13:13:17Z

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