Principal Software Engineer - Retail Platform (Remote)

Rozgoo; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Toast is hiring for a Staff/Senior Staff Software Engineer in the Retail vertical. The role focuses on designing, building, deploying, and maintaining highly resilient systems used by large retailers and local stores.

You will define long-term architecture, mentor engineers, and drive productivity across the team, collaborating directly with operators to align engineering with store workflows. Ideal candidates bring 9+ years of production software experience and strong proficiency in Java or

Qualifications

• 9+ years experience building and shipping production software to customers.
• Experience with Java, Kotlin, or other object oriented programming languages.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable systems that are critical to our customers’ success
• Define and drive long-term technical architecture and strategy across the entire organization, aligning executive business goals with platform capabilities.
• Design solutions that anticipate and accommodate future needs while considering tradeoffs
• Effectively communicate technical direction
• Sponsor and mentor senior engineering talent (Staff and Senior Staff engineers) to grow the next generation of technical leaders across Toast.
• Act as a force multiplier in improving engineering productivity
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations
• Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

OO languages

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Toast is hiring for a Staff/Senior Staff Software Engineer in the Retail vertical. The role focuses on designing, building, deploying, and maintaining highly resilient systems used by large retailers and local stores.

You will define long-term architecture, mentor engineers, and drive productivity across the team, collaborating directly with operators to align engineering with store workflows. Ideal candidates bring 9+ years of production software experience and strong proficiency in Java or