Staff Software Engineer

About the Job Toast is building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and focus on what they do best: growing businesses they love. Our platform streamlines operations, increases revenue, and delivers outstanding guest experiences by combining point of sale, team management, guest-facing technology, and award-winning customer support. As a Toaster, you’ll work on meaningful projects that shape the company’s future. Join us as we empower the restaurant community to thrive. Role Overview Toast is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the Membership team in India. In this role, you will be a senior IC technical leader for the Membership domain, responsible for shaping architecture and engineering direction for systems that power subscriptions, memberships, entitlements, and usage tracking across Toast’s ecosystem. This is a hands-on role with significant cross-team influence. You will partner closely with Product, UX, and engineering teams to design scalable platform systems that balance long-term architectural health with fast-moving product needs. You will operate across multiple teams, define technical standards, and drive alignment on architecture, APIs, and system boundaries. Key Responsibilities 1. Architecture & System Ownership Define and evolve the long-term architecture of the Membership platform. Design distributed systems for subscriptions, entitlements, and usage tracking. Own service boundaries, APIs, and data models across Postgre