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title: 'Software Engineer II, IQ Grow at Toast'
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# Software Engineer II, IQ Grow at Toast

- **Company:** Toast
- **Location:** Dublin, Ireland
- **Posted:** 2026-09-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://careers.toasttab.com/jobs?gh_jid=8185446

## 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.

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.

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 (Requirements)

- 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](https://careers.toasttab.com/ireland).**

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.

We Thrive Together

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 restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.

Apply today!

Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. 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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.

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## About Toast

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Toast provides a cloud-based, all-in-one digital technology platform of SaaS and fintech solutions purpose-built for the restaurant and hospitality industry.
- **Entity Type**: Public (ticker: TOST)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Not listed in provided sources

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Restaurant technology / hospitality technology
- **Target customers**: Restaurants of all sizes (independent, chain, enterprise), other hospitality businesses (B2B)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive."

## Products & Services
- **Toast POS**: Cloud-based point-of-sale system for dine-in, takeout, delivery, catering, and retail operations.
- **Toast Payments**: Integrated financial technology solutions for card processing, tipping, and payouts.
- **Toast Digital Ordering & Delivery**: Online ordering platform, website integration, and third-party delivery management.
- **Toast Marketing & Loyalty**: Tools for email/SMS marketing, guest loyalty programs, and gift cards.
- **Toast Team Management**: Scheduling, payroll, and labor management features integrated with POS.
- **Toast Operations**: Inventory management, vendor ordering, and back-of-house tools.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available from provided sources
- **Key Metric**: Headcount – over 5,000 employees globally (as of May 2026); 4,503 US-based employees (May 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not listed in provided sources
- **Growth Signals**: Expanded to 11 locations across US, Canada, Ireland, UK, India, Australia, and Taiwan; approximately 20% of open roles filled internally; hybrid work model with strong onboarding and development programs; ranked #62 on Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For 2025 and multiple other Great Place to Work awards (Best Workplaces for Parents, Women, Millennials, Technology).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep domain expertise**: Roughly two-thirds of employees have firsthand restaurant industry experience, giving unique insight into customer needs.
- **Purpose-built platform**: All-in-one system connecting front and back of house, unlike generic POS or ERP solutions.
- **Customer obsession**: Strong focus on understanding and earning customer trust, with 84% of employees rating the company a great place to work (compared to 57% at typical US firms).
- **Data-informed innovation**: Dedicated teams researching "what's next" to stay ahead of restaurant industry trends.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue empowering the restaurant community with data-informed solutions and cutting-edge technology.
- Maintain and expand geographic presence while preserving hybrid work culture.
- Invest in social impact through Toast.org, employee volunteer campaigns, and ESG initiatives.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as driven, collaborative, inclusive, and fun; 84% of employees say it's a great place to work (Great Place to Work certified).
- **Work model**: Hybrid model with in-person collaboration supported by remote/office flexibility; 90-day onboarding program includes live sessions, social events, and online courses.
- **Growth**: Professional development programs, peer and company recognition, and significant internal mobility (20% of roles filled internally).
- **Perks**: Paid time off, mental health/well-being support, computer equipment provided, regular volunteer events via Toast.org.
- **DEI**: Inclusive design, equitable practices, and diversity encouraged to reflect the diverse restaurant community.

## Sources
1. [careers.toasttab.com](https://careers.toasttab.com/) – Life at Toast, culture, values, hybrid policy
2. [careers.toasttab.com/faq](https://careers.toasttab.com/frequently-asked-questions) – Headcount, internal fill rate, onboarding, DEI
3. [glassdoor.com](https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Toast-Inc-EI_IE989964.11,20.htm) – Company type, headquarters, founded year, mission
4. [greatplacetowork.com](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/en/certified-company/7011573) – Headcount, employee survey scores, award lists

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