Requirements

• 8+ years of backend/full-stack experience, delivering products that drive impact
• Ability to read and integrate with frontend applications; showing curiosity to work across the stack when needed
• Strong enthusiasm for agentic development practices, LLM integration, and modern software paradigms
• Effectively works with ambiguity, agile delivery, and shipping usable software incrementally
• Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild
• Strong on software development fundamentals — code quality, unit tests, clean code — and open to evolving your workflow with AI tooling
• Strong collaboration skills: you communicate clearly with engineers, product, and business stakeholders, and adapt technical detail to the audience
• Curiosity and a growth mindset: you seek feedback, embrace change, and want to grow toward broader ownership
• Balanced expertise: Ability to design high-level technical solutions on a whiteboard while remaining deeply connected to code-level execution and system performance.
• Effective communication: Ability to articulate complex technical ideas clearly to both technical peers and product leadership.

What you'll be doing

• Design, build and maintain high performing, flexible, and scalable solutions that help restaurants deliver a best-in-class guest experience : define and execute the technical architecture for AI agents within Marketing and Demand Generation domains, ensuring systems are scalable, reliable, and secure.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design and Engineering stakeholders
• Maintain a strong hands-on presence, writing code, prototyping new patterns, and resolving complex technical bottlenecks under load.
• Collaborate with Principal and Senior Principal Engineers across Toast to align on best practices, agent patterns, and spec-driven development paradigms.
• Guide, mentor, and elevate engineers within the Team area, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
• Ship features end-to-end, from design through rollout, monitoring for success and iterating based on real-world use
• Be an awesome teammate who's all in on collaboration and collective success
• Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance you and your team’s development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and up-level the team through design reviews, constructive feedback, and agent-assisted engineering practices

Perks and Benefits

• A core of Java & Kotlin based backend services
• React SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook.
• Android app built in Java & Kotlin running in the restaurant
• Claude Code and similar AI agentic development tools as part of daily engineering
• PostgreSQL and DynamoDB as core persistence
• And many more technologies that help us build a top class platform.