Senior Software Engineer, Analytics & Search (OLAP Platform)

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. Over 180,000 restaurant businesses run on Toast.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join our OLAP Platform team in Dublin. OLAP is the analytical data layer that powers real-time reporting, search and agentic data access for AI-driven products across Toast. We ingest events from across the business, index them into OpenSearch, and expose them to consumer teams through a federated GraphQL layer. One platform, many tenants, restaurant-critical latency and freshness.

The team is in a pivotal stretch of work: scaling the platform to support more domains and more consumers, keeping performance and cost in balance as it grows, and opening it up safely to the next wave of AI-driven products. This is platform engineering at real scale - the systems you build here are consumed by other engineering teams and, downstream, by the tens of thousands of restaurants that run on Toast.

What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

• Strong backend engineering skills in Kotlin, Java, or another object-oriented language, with solid instincts around testing and code quality

• Experience working with large datasets, where correctness, freshness, and query performance all matter at the same time

• Comfort with document-based or columnar data stores (BigTable, DynamoDB or similar)

• A strong interest in core search engineering e.g. ranking algorithms, semantic search, natural language search etc

• Ability to work across team boundaries and pick up context quickly - OLAP touches almost every product area at Toast, and the work can be as much collaboration as execution

• The ability to break down a problem, understand what the consuming team actually needs, and ship a clean solution. Our users are other engineers, and the ergonomics of the platform matter

• Use AI tooling as a genuine part of your workflow, not an afterthought

What will help you stand out (Nonessential Skills/Nice to Haves)

• Experience designing platform APIs that other teams depend on - platform thinking, not just feature delivery

• Hands-on experience with OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, or a similar query engine at scale

• Familiarity with data pipelines or event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pulsar, or similar)

• Experience with federated GraphQL (ElasticGraph, Apollo Federation, or similar) and REST API design

• Exposure to Ruby, with the ability to navigate, understand, or modify existing source code.

Our Tech Stack

• A core of Java & Kotlin based backend services.

• OpenSearch as the core query engine with ElasticGraph on top for federated GraphQL

• Pulsar & Camel for message-based integrations.

• React SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook.

• 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.**

AI at Toast

At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture.

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