Senior Backend Architect & AI-Driven Ops Lead

United States Digital Space LLC; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Total rewards package

AI tools in hiring process

Job summary

Toasttab is seeking a senior software engineer to lead the end-to-end architecture of our backend services and data systems. You will design and implement integrations that ingest engineering, tooling, and cost signals from multiple sources, delivering robust APIs and data contracts.

The role emphasizes agentic engineering and ownership of quality, reliability, and production monitoring, with mentorship to grow the team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and operating production full-stack systems, including data-intensive systems.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, Kotlin, or TypeScript).
• Hands-on use of agentic engineering as a core part of how you work.
• Strong backend, API integration, SQL and data modeling skills.
• Proficiency in a modern web frontend stack to prototype visualizations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the team's technical lead, owning the end-to-end architecture and direction of our services, internal tools, and data systems, and driving significant projects from design through rollout
• Design and build the backend services and integrations that ingest engineering, tooling, and cost signals from multiple source systems, with clear APIs and data contracts rather than manual extracts
• Partner with our Product Owner to identify and define the biggest opportunities for impact, and collaborate with your teammates on end-to-end solutions
• Build the back-end that enables role-based reporting on engineering health, AI and tooling spend and ROI, and cost and capitalization, replacing recurring manual processes with durable, auditable, productized tools & analytics
• Own quality, reliability, and operational monitoring for business-critical reporting that leaders at every level depend on
• Mentor less experienced engineers and up-level the team through design reviews, constructive feedback, and agent-assisted engineering practices

Skills

Software engineering

Backend development

API integration

SQL

Data modeling

Agentic engineering

Python

TypeScript

Job description

Toasttab is seeking a senior software engineer to lead the end-to-end architecture of our backend services and data systems. You will design and implement integrations that ingest engineering, tooling, and cost signals from multiple sources, delivering robust APIs and data contracts.

The role emphasizes agentic engineering and ownership of quality, reliability, and production monitoring, with mentorship to grow the team.