Senior Principal Software Engineer, Senior Architect
As a Senior Principal Software Engineer and Senior Architect, you will be a top technologist at Toast, defining the technical vision and architectural direction for the AI Pod. You will lead complex initiatives, establish AI-native development patterns, and champion agentic development practices across the organization.
Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy. Because our technology is purpose-built for restaurants, by restaurant people - and increasingly shaped by AI in both what we build and how we build - restaurants can trust that we'll deliver on their needs for today while investing in the experiences that will power their restaurant of the future.
An AI pod is Toast's AI-native engineering team, a focused pod of specialists who tackle complex, high-impact problems across Toast's product and platform landscape using AI-first approaches.
As Senior Principal Software Engineer and Senior Architect, you will be one of the most senior technologists at Toast, setting the technical vision and architectural direction for the pod while remaining hands-on in its most ambitious work. You'll define how AI-native engineering is done at Toast and spread those patterns across the organization.
At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture.
Posted June 12, 2026