Software Engineer II, Developer Experience
Remote · 2+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 13, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 2+ years experience
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
About the role
- Developer Experience sits and builds the tools, platforms, and workflows that hundreds of Toast engineers rely on every day.
- This role involves maintaining and growing local development tools that accelerate engineers in the inner-loop of development, increasingly leveraging AI to enhance these workflows.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and grow local development tools that accelerate engineers in the inner-loop of development.
- Contribute to key internal development platform components like service templates and the developer portal.
- Find and fix bottlenecks in the developer workflow, such as slow local builds, flaky tests, and painful setup steps, and use data to measure the impact of your changes.
- Maintain and expand testing frameworks and core libraries used for developing web services.
- Help integrate and roll out AI-assisted development tools, and help engineers across Toast adopt them effectively.
- Partner directly with product engineering teams to understand their pain points, gather feedback, and turn it into improvements to the platform.
- Operate the services you own in production, including monitoring, on-call participation, and incident follow-up.
- Write clear documentation and take part in design and code reviews with teammates.
Requirements
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production software.
- Proficiency in at least one general-purpose language (e.g. Kotlin, Java, Go, or TypeScript).
- Experience building and maintaining core libraries and developer tooling.
- Working knowledge of containers and cloud infrastructure (e.g. Docker, AWS).
- Solid grounding in testing practices and in writing maintainable, well-tested code.
- Comfort jumping into unfamiliar codebases and debugging problems across the stack.
- Strong empathy for your users (fellow engineers) and the ability to explain technical tradeoffs clearly.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with the Backstage Developer Portal.
- Familiarity with AI-augmented development workflows and tools (e.g. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar).
- Experience managing 3rd party tools like LaunchDarkly, Wiremock Cloud, or Postman.
- Contributions to internal or open-source developer tools, CLIs, or IDE plugins.
- Experience instrumenting developer metrics (e.g. DORA, build/test analytics) or observability tools like Datadog.
Workplace
- Locations include US remote, Boston hybrid, New York hybrid, and San Francisco hybrid.
Skills
- Kotlin
- Java
- Go
- TypeScript
- Docker
- AWS
- Backstage
- Claude Code
- Codex
- Cursor
- LaunchDarkly
- Wiremock Cloud
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- Postman
- Datadog
