Toast
Principal Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Retail
$180K–$368K
Remote, US +1 · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2026
- Location
- Remote, US
Boston, MA, United States - Experience
- 9+ years building and shipping production software to customers.
About the job
Leads technical architecture and engineering for scalable retail systems, integrations, and back-office tools serving Toast’s largest customers.
What you'll do
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain resilient, scalable systems; diagnose bottlenecks and optimize performance.
- Set long-term technical architecture and strategy, communicate direction, and align platform capabilities with business goals.
- Mentor senior engineers, improve engineering productivity, and use AI tools to enhance development workflows.
What they ask for
- 9+ years experience building and shipping production software to customers.
- Experience with Java, Kotlin, or other object oriented programming languages.
- Ability to articulate project roadmaps and empower engineering cohorts to deliver them.
- Demonstrated technical authority and ability to drive initiatives amid ambiguity.
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
AI focus
Use cutting edge AI tools to improve development workflow and velocity and pioneer new approaches to building.
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