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. Because our technology is purpose-built for restaurants, by restaurant people - and…
What you'll do
Lead and grow a distributed team of engineers across Ireland and India,: building an operating rhythm that works across time zones
Help set the strategy and roadmap for Toast's internal agent ecosystem,: covering both developer tooling (coding agents, plugins, skills, MCP servers) and agents for non-engineering functions
Own delivery of specific components within the internal agent platform from: design through production, including the integrations that connect agents to Toast systems and data
Drive adoption across R&D and the broader company by partnering with our: product managers as they conduct customer research
Establish guardrails for agent usage with Security, Legal and Finance,: including access controls, data handling and visibility into AI spend
Define and report the metrics that matter for the team (e.g., adoption, time: saved, quality and cost per outcome) to AI Foundations and R&D leadership
What they're looking for
- Stay hands-on with the latest agentic development practices, both to make: sound technical calls and to model the way of working the team is enabling
- Champion the use of AI tools and practices to accelerate development, improve: team velocity, and pioneer new ways of building - setting the bar for what it means to be an AI-first engineering organization.
- + years of managing software engineering teams with an extensive background in software development
- Hands-on, daily use of coding harnesses (e.g. Claude Code, Codex) and LLM-based tooling
