Principal Software Engineer, Toast Partner Connect

About the Company

Responsibilities

• ● Own the technical strategy for Partner Connect and make it legible to people well outside the team.
• ● Design the platform that lets strategic partners send us customer data, and the architecture for storing it and serving it to ToastIQ and our AI agents.
• ● Design the systems that make partner onboarding automated, self-serve, and fast, including sandbox provisioning and a clean path to production.
• ● Set the frameworks, contracts, and standards other Toast teams use to publish events and expose APIs, and build the feedback loops that tell you whether those teams are succeeding.
• ● Build partnerships across Commerce, platform, and product organizations so the technical direction here aligns with where Toast is going.
• ● Partner with the engineering manager and product manager to turn vision into an executable roadmap, holding the balance between new architecture and the systems the team already runs in production.
• ● Raise the technical bar through architecture, design review, and code review, and mentor engineers across levels as the team grows.
• ● Guide the team to build for the next order of magnitude of scale, with the monitoring and operational maturity to match.
• ● Use AI tools in your own workflow and help establish how the team uses them well, including how to critically evaluate what they produce.

Requirements

• ● 10+ years designing and delivering complex, scalable backend systems, with a track record of technical leadership on work that mattered to the business.
• ● Demonstrated influence beyond your own team. You've driven a technical direction other teams adopted, and you can describe how you earned that.
• ● Deep experience with distributed, event-driven architectures and APIs in Java, Kotlin, Scala, or a similar language, on a major cloud platform.
• ● Strong data architecture and schema design judgment. You've made modeling