Senior Principal Software Engineer, AI Agents (Dublin, Ireland)

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world. The Senior Principal Software Engineer will drive architecture, technical strategy, and implementation of AI agents for Toast's Team area within the Fintech line of business.

• Develop and drive an architectural vision to support the ambitious goals for agents and agent development
• Be an active participant and an authoritative technical voice in FinTech product strategy discussions
• Partner with the Team Management Director of Engineering and Sr. Director of Product to successfully deliver Team agent products from design to production
• Work closely with other Senior Principal Engineers to further the agent patterns and ecosystem across Toast as a whole
• Evolve an ever more efficient way of working through agents and spread it across Toast
• Work directly with the product manager for the Team Agent space, collaborating to drive vision
• Be hands on and actively participate in development on the Team Agent
• Mentor and develop technical leadership across Team, and Fintech

• 15+ years experience designing and building highly scalable, mission-critical distributed and fullstack software systems
• 10+ years experience building and operating SaaS products, ideally AWS hosted
• 1+ years experience using the latest in coding agents
• A strong desire to lean all in on agentic development practices
• Passion for building autonomous agents
• Demonstrated ability to drive technical architecture for a company or highly scalable line of products
• A desire to work not only with technologists but also product owners and business leaders
• Ability and desire to draw big lines and boxes on a whiteboard paired with the ability to dig in and understand the ebb and flow of what the code is doing under load
• Ability and desire to communicate and influence at the executive level