Principal Software Engineer - Retail Platform (Remote/Hybrid)

Toast; United States; Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 368,000; Full time

Job summary

Toast is hiring a senior software engineer to design, build, and scale critical systems for our retail customers. You’ll influence architecture and product direction while mentoring teams and driving velocity.

Expect collaboration with cross‑functional partners and hands-on work in a hybrid US role. You will engage in early research, define long-term roadmaps, and apply AI tooling to improve development practices and outcomes.

Qualifications

• 9+ years building and shipping production software to customers.
• Experience with Java, Kotlin, or other object oriented programming languages.
• Startup mindset in driving initiatives and ability to find order in ambiguity.

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 organization.
• Design solutions that anticipate future needs while considering tradeoffs.
• Effectively communicate technical direction.
• Sponsor and mentor senior engineering talent to grow the next generation of technical leaders.
• Improve engineering productivity and velocity.
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations.
• Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance the development workflow.

Skills

9+ years experience

Java/Kotlin

Humility & empathy

Roadmaps & leadership

Growth mindset

Trusted technical authority

Ambiguity tolerance

Mentoring staff

AI tools usage

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Toast is hiring a senior software engineer to design, build, and scale critical systems for our retail customers. You’ll influence architecture and product direction while mentoring teams and driving velocity.

Expect collaboration with cross‑functional partners and hands-on work in a hybrid US role. You will engage in early research, define long-term roadmaps, and apply AI tooling to improve development practices and outcomes.