Senior AI-Driven Backend Engineer (Remote)

Toast; Boston (MA); A distancia; USD 140.000 - 190.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Toast is hiring an Onboarding AI Engineer to design and build agents that handle restaurant onboarding tasks across payments, payroll, menus, and hardware. You will own the onboarding backend and reshape it for agent-driven flows, partnering with product, design, onboarding operations, and data science to test and measure outcomes.

You should have 5+ years in software engineering (Kotlin/Java), experience with LLMs enabling actions through tools, and a track record of end-to-end ownership from

Formación

• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production backend systems in Kotlin, Java, or another OO language.
• Experience building on LLMs where the model can take actions through tools in production or serious projects.
• Proven ability to own outcomes end to end: design, launch, rollout monitoring, measurement, and iteration.

Responsabilidades

• Design and build AI agents that complete onboarding work for restaurants, from tool design and permissions through evaluation, guardrails, and production monitoring.
• Turn onboarding touches (payments, payroll, hardware, menus, appointments) into reliable tools agents can read state and act on.
• Own the onboarding backend and reshape it for agent-driven flows.
• Build evaluation and measurement so every launch depends on real outcomes: setup quality, readiness to go live, and post-launch support.

Conocimientos

Backend engineering

LLMs integration

End-to-end ownership

AI tooling

Product collaboration

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Herramientas

React

TypeScript

Descripción del empleo

Toast is hiring an Onboarding AI Engineer to design and build agents that handle restaurant onboarding tasks across payments, payroll, menus, and hardware. You will own the onboarding backend and reshape it for agent-driven flows, partnering with product, design, onboarding operations, and data science to test and measure outcomes.

You should have 5+ years in software engineering (Kotlin/Java), experience with LLMs enabling actions through tools, and a track record of end-to-end ownership from