Toast is driven by its all-in-one platform that helps restaurants operate their business, increase sales, engage guests, and keep employees happy. Our FinTech business line designs and builds creative solutions to assist restaurants with their unique and evolving financial needs.
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Location
Ireland
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Toast
Role Description Your mission is to drive architecture, technical strategy, and implementation of AI agents for Toast's Team area which is part of the Fintech line of business. You will be one of the most senior technologists in the line of business. The Team area is a mission-critical space on which our restaurants rely to manage their staff and optimize their labor. Beyond being on the forefront of agent development, your scope will also include enablement and leadership for how software is developed at Toast through adoption of bleeding edge spec driven development and other paradigms. A day in the life (Responsibilities) - Develop and drive an architectural vision to support the ambitious goals for agents and agent development. - Be an active participant and an authoritative technical voice in FinTech product strategy discussions. - Partner with the Team Management Director of Engineering and Sr. Director of Product to successfully deliver Team agent products from design to production. - Work closely with other Senior Principal Engineers to further the agent patterns and ecosystem across Toast as a whole. - Evolve an ever more efficient way of working through agents and spread it across Toast. - Work directly with the product manager for the Team Agent space, collaborating to drive vision. - Be hands on and actively participate in development on the Team Agent. - Mentor and develop technical leadership across Team, and Fintech. Qualifications - 15+ years experience designing and building highly scalable, mission-critical distributed and fullstack software systems. - 10+ years experience building and operating SaaS products, ideally AWS hosted. - A strong desire to lean all in on agentic development practices. - Passion for building autonomous agents. - Demonstrated ability to drive technical architecture for a company or highly scalable line of products. - A desire to work not only with technologists but also product owners and business leaders. - Ability and desire to draw big lines and boxes on a whiteboard paired with the ability to dig in and understand the ebb and flow of what the code is doing under load. - Ability and desire to communicate and influence at the executive level. Requirements - Experience designing agentic products. - Experience building systems that leverage LLMs and other ML models. - Experience with enterprise integration using Apache Camel. - Experience architecting event-driven distributed systems using Apache Pulsar. - Experience defining test, build and deploy strategies. - Solid understanding of workforce management. - Solid understanding of restaurant operations. Benefits - Competitive compensation and benefits programs. - Support for a healthy lifestyle with flexibility to meet changing needs. Company Description At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture.
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