Toast · 16 hours ago
Staff Software Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$168K/yr - $269K/yrToast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world. They are looking for a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to join the AI & Strategy Engineering team, responsible for building tools designed to enhance the sales team's operations and implementing Machine Learning solutions.
DeliveryPoint of SaleSaaS
Responsibilities
Hands-on Execution: Spend the majority of your time "hands-on-keyboard," architecting and coding high-performance backend services and ML pipelines
0-to-1 Development: Build and prototype new internal products from scratch that leverage LLMs and Agentic AI to automate account research, lead prioritization, and complex quoting logic
Core Intelligence Models: Design and implement ML models that provide real-time recommendations to sales users, reducing manual entry and increasing deal velocity
Infrastructure Integration: Develop the backend connective tissue between our custom quoting engine, Salesforce, and internal data lakes to ensure a seamless, low-latency end-to-end experience
Technical Problem Solving: Act as a domain expert to solve complex synchronization and architectural challenges across the GTM stack, ensuring systems are scalable and resilient
Quality & Mentorship: Drive engineering excellence through rigorous code reviews, automated testing, and by modeling best practices for SE1-SE3 engineers on the team
Build Great Products: Deliver significant core capabilities that have broad impact; take high-level goals and turn them into sequenced, production-ready code
Problem Solve: Anticipate shifts in product needs and build flexible, decoupled backend systems that can evolve with our AI strategy
Deliver Quality: Ensure the reliability of GTM tools by building deep observability into every service you ship
Qualification
Required
Extensive experience in backend languages (Java, Go, Python) with a track record of building complex, distributed systems
Practical, hands-on experience deploying Machine Learning models and building with LLMs (e.g., LangChain, RAG architectures, or Model Fine-tuning) in a production environment
Experience building or deeply integrating with complex enterprise software, specifically custom quoting engines or CRM internals (Salesforce Apex/LWC)
Ability to design event-driven architectures and manage data flow across disparate systems with high integrity
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field
Preferred
Experience building internal 'Sales Tech' or 'Fintech' tools that directly impact revenue
Familiarity with AWS data services (SageMaker, Lambda, SQS)
A passion for removing 'human-in-the-loop' friction through intelligent automation
Benefits
Cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions, if eligible)
Benefits
Equity (if eligible)
Company
Toast
Toast is a point-of-sale and restaurant management platform designed for businesses in the food service and hospitality industry.
Founded in 2011
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$961.95MKey Investors
12 West CapitalBessemer Venture Partners,Greenoaks,Tiger Global Management,TPGTCV,Tiger Global Management
2021-09-22IPO
2020-11-23Secondary Market· $60M
2020-02-14Series F· $400M
Leadership Team
Aman Narang
CEO and Co-Founder
Steve Fredette
Co-founder and President
Recent News
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