Summer 2027 Engineering Intern

About this role

Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.

About this role (Responsibilities)

Toast is looking for self-motivated individuals who love building great software and want to have fun while doing it. Our engineering teams offer opportunities to work on a variety of impactful areas, including Android and iOS development, web front-end, back-end infrastructure, AI/machine learning models, cybersecurity and compliance, and more. You could contribute to designing user-friendly interfaces, building secure and scalable systems in AWS using Java or Kotlin, applying machine learning for security and analytics, or creating tools for large-scale data processing. You’ll collaborate with talented mentors and engineers, gain hands-on experience with technologies like Python, TensorFlow, Splunk, and big data tools, and help empower restaurants through innovative technology. Whether you’re passionate about front-end design, advanced AI models, or cloud security, Toast has a role for you.

• Work on a an engineering team responsible for entire modules of Toast’s products

• Build, and maintain high performance, flexible, and highly scalable web and mobile applications

• Participate in designing, estimating effort, implementing, testing, debugging, configuring, integrating and documenting database, middle-tier and front-end code

• Develop AI powered tools that save our customers time and deliver better hospitality to their guests,

• Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations

• Think in terms of the end-user and design accordingly

• Actively contribute to product design and feature selection discussions

• Participate in code reviews to ensure technical implementations meet functional requirements

• Build cutting edge tools for analytical data processing, explore the power of Toast data and build machine learning models

• Implement secure software development processes

• Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in an academic program

• A passion for learning and a desire to understand what it takes to build software that empowers restaurants to thrive and do what they love

• You want to work for a rapidly growing, profitable tech company

• Knowledge of at least one of the following:

• Java development

• Mobile software development (preferably with Android)

• SQL or NoSQL databases

• RESTful microservices

• Web front-end basics: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

• Machine Learning and/or Generative AI development

Our Tech Stack

Toast’s products run on a stack that ranges from guest and restaurant-facing Android tablets to web applications and backend microservices. The Toast POS application is an Android application written in Java and Kotlin. Our backend microservice architecture consists of containerized RESTful and gRPC applications written in Java and Kotlin. Systems integrations are built on Apache Camel and we use Apache Pulsar for message oriented middleware. Front end applications use React and leverage GraphQL for data access. Mobile applications are native for both Android and iOS. Toast’s platform services are built and deployed on AWS, and consume several AWS services such as ECS, DynamoDB, Aurora (Postgres), S3 and others.

#LI-DNI #BI-DNI The starting pay rate for this role is below. Please note that there is no range for this role; the rate listed below is the only rate. You can learn more about how we align pay with local labor markets in our Geographic Pay Zone Philosophy .

Pay Rate $41 — $41 USD

How Toast Uses AI in its Hiring Process

Throughout the hiring process, our goal is to get to know you. We use AI tools to support our recruiters and interviewers with tasks like note-taking, summarization, and documentation of interviews to ensure they can be fully focused on your conversation. All hiring decisions are made by people. We ask that you complete interviews and assessments on your own, without real-time AI tools, recording, or transcription bots, unless we tell you otherwise in advance. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring

Our Approach to Hybrid Working

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 hospitality community, regardless of location. Please visit the Locations page on our career site to learn more about our in-office expectations by region: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast

People Are the Secret Ingredient in Our Recipe for Success

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry brings together people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we value that same breadth at Toast. We strive to build a culture grounded in authenticity, respect, and humility, where every Toaster has a real opportunity to grow, contribute, and do their best work—raising the bar in delivering exceptional experiences for our customers and each other.

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 inter

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