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
Define and execute the technical architecture for AI agents within the Team: domain, ensuring systems are scalable, reliable, and secure.
Partner closely with Engineering Managers and Product Managers to translate: product roadmaps into robust technical designs and deliverables.
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.
+ years of experience designing, building, and operating highly scalable,: mission-critical distributed systems and SaaS products (ideally AWS-hosted).
What they're looking for
- Proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives and delivering: robust software architecture from design to production.
- Strong enthusiasm for agentic development practices, LLM integration, and modern software paradigms.
- Balanced expertise: Ability to design high-level technical solutions on a whiteboard while remaining deeply connected to code-level execution and system performance.
- Effective communication: Ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly to both technical peers and product leadership.
