Staff Software Engineer: AI-Driven GTM Tools (0-to-1)

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 151,000 - 309,000; Full time

Job summary

Toast is seeking a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to join the GTM & AI Strategy Engineering team. You will build 0-to-1 tools and intelligent models to streamline sales processes, from account research to quoting, while ensuring observability and performance across the stack.

As a technical lead, you’ll productionize agentic workflows and RAG pipelines, integrate AI services, and maintain high standards for reliability.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in backend languages (Java, Go, Python) building distributed systems.
• Hands-on AI/ML experience with production LLM agents.
• Ability to implement event-driven architectures and manage data flows across systems.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS or related field.

Responsibilities

• Architect and code high-performance backend services and ML pipelines.
• Prototype new internal products leveraging LLMs to automate research, lead prioritization, and quoting logic.
• Integrate backend with Salesforce and internal data lakes for low-latency end-to-end experiences.
• Ensure observability and performance monitoring across the GTM stack.
• Deliver production-ready, decoupled backend systems that scale with AI strategy.

Skills

Backend languages

AI/ML skills

Event-driven architecture

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS

Tools

SageMaker

Lambda

SQS

Job description

Toast is seeking a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to join the GTM & AI Strategy Engineering team. You will build 0-to-1 tools and intelligent models to streamline sales processes, from account research to quoting, while ensuring observability and performance across the stack.

As a technical lead, you’ll productionize agentic workflows and RAG pipelines, integrate AI services, and maintain high standards for reliability.