Principal Software Engineer, Toast IQ

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world. The Principal Software Engineer will lead complex projects to improve functionality and reliability of Toast IQ, mentor team members, and advocate for best coding practices while leveraging cutting-edge AI tools to enhance development workflows.

Responsibilities:

• Join a collaborative team of Design, Product, QA, and other engineering members in developing robust and scalable full-stack software applications
• Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers
• Provide design feedback and participate in code reviews to ensure implementation meet requirements
• Drive architectural discussions and influence the technical roadmap
• Advocate for best coding practices to raise the bar for you, your team, and the company
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members
• 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

Requirements:

• 10+ years of full-stack experience in Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented languages, and modern web frameworks such as React
• Proficient with modern web standards and technologies (e.g. REST, GraphQL)
• Proficient with non-relational data stores (e.g. DynamoDB)
• Experience with applied machine learning or large language models
• Experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems, and/or microservices
• Experience delivering high-quality, reliable services to production
• Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics
• Passionate about technology and learning new things