Your mission is to lead the architectural design, technical execution, and implementation across the foundational domains of Toast's Team Suite products, Payroll and Team Management. The Payroll product delivers daily value to its users - enabling restaurant owners to pay their staff and pay their taxes, and enabling transparency for wages and tips for restaurant employees. The Team Management suite allows restaurants to hire, manage, and schedule their staff. As a Principal Engineer, you will serve as a key technical leader in the group, driving modern architectural patterns-including spec-driven development and agentic workflows-to deliver high-impact software. A day in the life (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 us transform a traditional SasS platform into an agentic, system-of-action • Flex your full-stack muscles by driving 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 - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team. What you'll need to thrive (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 that includes those used at Toast - 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. • Hungry to take on challenging technical projects AI at Toast 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. Our Total Rewards PhilosophyWe strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters' changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits. #LI-REMOTE The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills, experience, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions if eligible), equity, and benefits. You can learn more about how we align pay with local labor markets in our Geographic Pay Zone Philosophy. Zone A $230,000-$368,000 USD Zone B $200,000-$320,000 USD Zone C $180,000-$288,000 USD How Toast Uses AI in its Hiring Process Throughout the hiring process, our goal is to get to know you. We use AI tools to support our recruiters and interviewers with tasks like note-taking, summarization, and documentation of interviews to ensure they can be fully focused on your conversation. All hiring decisions are made by people. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring Our Approach to Hybrid Working We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the hospitality community, regardless of location. Please visit the Locations page on our career site to learn more about our in-office expectations by region: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast We Thrive Together We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast. Apply today!