Principal Software Engineer, IQ GrowNew

The opportunity

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.

What you'll do

  • Design, build and maintain high performing, flexible, and scalable solutions: that help restaurants deliver a best-in-class guest experience : define and execute the technical architecture for AI agents within Marketing and Demand Generation domains, ensuring systems are scalable, reliable, and secure.

  • Collaborate closely with Product, Design and Engineering stakeholders

  • Maintain a strong hands-on presence, writing code, prototyping new patterns,: and resolving complex technical bottlenecks under load.

  • Collaborate with Principal and Senior Principal Engineers across Toast to: align on best practices, agent patterns, and spec-driven development paradigms.

  • Guide, mentor, and elevate engineers within the Team area, fostering a: culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.

  • Ship features end-to-end, from design through rollout, monitoring for success: and iterating based on real-world use

What they're looking for

  • Be an awesome teammate who's all in on collaboration and collective success
  • Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance you and your team’s development: workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team.
  • Mentor less experienced engineers and up-level the team through design: reviews, constructive feedback, and agent-assisted engineering practices
  • + years of backend/full-stack experience, delivering products that drive impact