Challenge Overview

Toast is calling all aspiring Software Engineer Interns to join our innovative team in Bangalore and Chennai! You’re just a few steps away from kickstarting your career with a cloud-based, all-in-one digital technology platform that’s revolutionizing the restaurant community. At Toast, we’re not just building software—we’re crafting solutions that streamline operations, boost revenue, and create unforgettable guest experiences. Ready to dive into a dynamic 3-month internship and help shape the future of restaurant tech? Let’s get cooking!

Recruitment Process

• Registration on our microsite
• Online coding challenge
• Result announcement based on scores and resume
• Final interview round

Challenge Format

Preliminary Online Challenge

• 12 MCQ questions and 2 programming questions
• Show off your problem-solving skills and coding flair!

Final Interview Round

• Selected candidates will get the chance to shine in a live discussion with our engineering team. Details will be shared with shortlisted participants.

Eligibility

• Currently pursuing a B.Tech Degree in Computer Science Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• We are currently seeking candidates who will graduate in 2025 and are available to join us as interns for a minimum of three months or longer.
• We are seeking candidates with a CGPA of 7.5 or higher
• Open to coders with a passion for Java, Python, JavaScript, HTML, and an eagerness to learn CSS, ReactJS, Cloud, or AWS

About Jobs

Software Engineer - Intern

Eligibility: 2025 graduating students

Location: Bengaluru and Chennai

Duration: Min. 3 months to 6 months

Job Mode: Twice a week in Office

Toast is a cloud-based, all-in-one digital technology platform purpose-built for the entire restaurant community. Toast provides a comprehensive platform of software-as-a-service (SaaS) products and financial technology solutions that give restaurants everything they need to streamline operations, increase revenue, and deliver amazing guest experiences.

As a member of our engineering team, you will help build high-quality products and features that solve real-world problems and support our customers, playing a key role in advancing our vision.

About this role* (Responsibilities)

Toast is looking for self-motivated individuals who love building great software and want to have fun while doing it. We work extensively with Android, iOS, and web front ends, where we work hard to provide a well-designed user interface for our customers. Our infrastructure runs in Amazon Web Services where we run Java microservices in Docker containers. Our customers rely on us to keep this infrastructure fast and stable so that their point-of-sale system "just works", despite being a complex distributed system.

Please Note - There are multiple opportunities in the Software Engineering & Data Science Teams!

What you will do:

• Work with a small team of 3-6 engineers, responsible for entire modules of the Toast product
• 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
• 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

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• Currently pursuing a B.Tech Degree in computer science engineering, mathematics, or any related field.
• Proficient in the programming languages like Java or Python development experience.
• Exposure in the web front-end basics - HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Knowledge in tiered web application architecture and databases
• You should possess good problem-solving skills.
• You should demonstrate excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Willing to learn and adapt.

Benefits at Toast

• Enjoy complimentary lunch at our in-office cafeteria, saving you time and money
• Stress-free commute with our door-to-door transport service, both ways
• Flexible time off with 1 paid leave days per month

Our Tech Stack

Toast’s products run on a stack that ranges from guest and restaurant-facing Android tablets to backend services in Java to internal, guest-facing, and restaurant-facing web apps. The main Toast POS application is an Android application written in Java and Kotlin. Our backend services follow a microservice architecture written using Java and DropWizard; we use AWS extensively, ranging from S3 to RDS to Lambda. We have our own platform for dealing with user management, service elevations, and robust load balancing. Toast stores data in a set of sharded Postgres databases and utilizes Apache Spark for large-scale data workloads including query and batch processing. The front-end is moving towards React and ES6. For data between tablets and our cloud platform, we operate RabbitMQ clusters and direct tablet communication to the back end.

Skill Required: Java/Python/Jscript, HTML

Preferred: CSS, ReactJS, Cloud, AWS