Toast
Principal Software Engineer
$180K–$368K
Remote, US +1 · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Location
- Remote, US
Remote - USA - Experience
- Extensive experience required; no number of years stated.
About the job
Leads architecture and technical delivery for Toast’s Payroll and Team Management products, with a focus on identity, access, and organization-wide technical strategy.
What you'll do
- Own architecture for authentication, authorization, and organizational hierarchy, and set technical direction across the organization.
- Lead cross-functional, end-to-end initiatives and define technical strategy for problems affecting multiple business areas.
- Mentor developers and champion development, deployment, and quality practices.
What they ask for
- Extensive experience defining and implementing high-scale SaaS solutions.
- Deep experience with identity and access architecture, including authentication, permissions models, and multi-entity organizational hierarchy in multi-tenant SaaS.
- Experience with integration design patterns across high-scale, data-rich enterprise systems.
- Experience with a broad set of technologies, including tiered web applications, microservices, mobile, API design patterns, Java, Kotlin, React, and data analytics.
Pay
$230,000 — $368,000 USD (base salary); $200,000 — $320,000 USD (base salary); $180,000 — $288,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Java, Kotlin, React
AI focus
Promotes agentic development practices and LLM integration, applies AI tools to improve development workflow and velocity, and helps transform the platform into an agentic system-of-action.
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