Toast

Toast builds an end-to-end restaurant technology platform encompassing point-of-sale hardware, payment processing, online ordering, kitchen display systems, and workforce management tools purpose-built for the food service industry. The company's engineering challenges span hardware-software integration for custom Android-based POS terminals, real-time payment processing that must maintain sub-second authorization times during peak dinner rushes, and analytics pipelines that help restaurant operators understand labor costs, menu performance, and customer behavior. Their systems must handle extreme traffic spikes during meal periods while maintaining PCI compliance across tens of thousands of restaurant locations processing billions in payment volume annually. Toast's hiring patterns reveal demand for embedded systems engineers, payments infrastructure specialists, and full-stack developers who can build merchant-facing tools that simplify complex restaurant operations. As restaurant technology consolidates from fragmented point solutions into integrated platforms, Toast's talent needs illuminate the intersection of fintech, hardware, and vertical SaaS engineering.