Description
As a Principal Software Engineer at Toast, you will lead the architectural design, technical execution, and implementation across the foundational domains of Toast's Team Suite products, Payroll and Team Management.
Your mission is to drive modern architectural patterns, including spec-driven development and agentic workflows, to deliver high-impact software.
Responsibilities:
- Lead fellow developers, product managers, designers, and user researchers to build a strong tech infrastructure that enables amazing features
- Own the architecture for authentication, authorization, and organizational hierarchy , driving technical direction in these domains across the organization
- Help transform a traditional SaaS platform into an agentic, system-of-action
- Drive challenging large end-to-end initiatives or core architecture changes in a supportive, collaborative team environment
- Define and drive technical strategy for problems that affect multiple parts of the business
- Mentor developers across multiple teams through code-pairing and detailed code, architecture, and project reviews
- Champion best practices for development, deployment, and quality life cycles
- Leverage cutting-edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building
Requirements:
- Strong technologist with extensive experience defining and implementing high-scale SaaS solutions
- Deep experience with identity and access architecture , authentication, permissions models, and multi-entity organizational hierarchy , in a multi-tenant SaaS platform
- Experience with a broad set of technologies, including tiered web applications, microservices, mobile, API design patterns, Java, Kotlin, React, data analytics
- Strong enthusiasm for agentic development practices, LLM integration, and modern software paradigms
- Experience with integration design patterns across high-scale, data-rich enterprise systems
- A proven track record of building partnerships across engineering, product, customer success, and other stakeholders
- Experience and interest in mentoring peers
- Experience maintaining a high bar for quality, and guiding teams to hold a high bar for the technical quality of their deliverables
Benefits:
- Competitive compensation and benefits programs
- Flexible work arrangements
- Opportunities for growth and development
Salary Range:
- Zone A: $230,000-$368,000 USD
- Zone B: $200,000-$320,000 USD
- Zone C: $180,000-$288,000 USD