Software Engineer - IOS Developer

Location: Chennai

Work Mode: Hybrid

Minimum educational qualifications : Any UG

Toast is driven by building the all-in-one restaurant platform that helps restaurants operate their business, increase sales, engage guests, and keep employees happy. Toast connects employees, operations, and guests on a reliable, easy-to-use platform so restaurateurs can stay one step ahead of a rapidly evolving hospitality market.

Are you bready* to make a change?

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the development and enhancement of various modules within our group. In this role, you will focus on driving innovation and continuous improvement across our product offerings. Your technical expertise will help bring our technology to new markets and ensure we stay competitive. You will play an important role in helping us achieve our mission to make Toast a global leader in the restaurant technology space.

As a Senior-Software-Engineer on this team, you would get to build, innovate and upscale the next generation of our software solutions, with a Global first mindset, working closely with UX/PM/QA and customers to deliver the most value that fits our customers market and culture.

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features of the mobile application.
• Collaborate with PM, UX & QA, and other engineers, on the development of new features & products.
• Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast.
• Drive high-quality team output and ensure that the team makes solid technical decisions.
• Collaborate with peer engineers, provide design feedback, and participate in code reviews.
• Champion best practices for SDLC & CICD life-cycles.
• Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes.
• Roll* features out to customers, ensuring successful delivery and operation, including monitoring for success and/or failures.
• Mentor & coach your peer engineers.
  
  

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• 4+ years of experience in iOS development, with a proven track record of building and scaling mobile applications.
• Strong proficiency in Swift and iOS frameworks (UIKit, SwiftUI, Core Data, Core Animation).
• Experience with architectural patterns like MVC and MVVM, especially in large-scale applications.
• Expertise in networking and API integration (RESTful APIs, Alamofire).
• Strong experience with offline storage solutions (Core Data, SQLite) and syncing data between devices and servers.
• A deep understanding of memory management, threading, and performance tuning in iOS applications.
• Proven experience building push notifications, in-app messaging, and cloud integration.
• Hands-on experience in setting up and managing CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Fastlane).
• Version control experience using Git and a commitment to collaborative code reviews.
• Knowledge of Firebase, Splunk, and Heap for analytics and app performance monitoring.
• Unit testing, UI testing, and building automated test suites for quality assurance (XCTest).
• Experience in managing the global rollout of apps on the Apple App Store, including localization and internationalization.
• A passion for working on products that scale globally, with a strong customer-first mindset.
  
  

Special Sauce* (Nice to Haves)

• Experience with backend services and RESTful API development, particularly in a microservice architecture.
• GraphQL integration especially into mobile apps.
• Proficiency in SQL/NoSQL databases and understanding of when and how to use distributed data stores.
• Experience working with analytics tools like Datadog and Sentry to monitor app performance and troubleshoot production issues.
  
  

What we use to make our dish: (Our Tech Stack)

• iOS apps built using Swift, SwiftUI.
• Backend services which follow a microservice architecture written using Kotlin, Java, and DropWizard.
• Event-driven messaging with Apache Pulsar and RabbitMQ.
• Apache Camel for implementing Enterprise Integration Pattern.
• React & ES6 for front-end SPAs with Tailwind, GraphQL, and Storybook.
• Data storage with DynamoDB and Postgres.
• Datadog, Sentry, and Splunk for monitoring and application metrics.
• FireHydrant for incident management and alerting.
  
  

Our Spread of Total Rewards

We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.

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.