Principal Software Engineer (Dublin, Ireland)

This hybrid role is based in Dublin, Ireland (Full relocation provided).Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy.

• Lead full-stack design and delivery of AI-native solutions that address complex, cross-functional problems across Toast
• Drive technical architecture for pod initiatives, from backend services and APIs to frontend and developer-facing interfaces
• Build and integrate LLM-powered agents, tools, and workflows that bring AI capabilities directly into product and platform contexts
• Set and uphold engineering standards within the pod: code quality, system design, testing, and operational practices
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and pairing
• Partner with stakeholders across Toast engineering to define problem scope, align on approach, and deliver outcomes
• Serve as a technical voice in cross-team architecture discussions, connecting pod work to broader Toast engineering patterns

• 10+ years of experience designing and delivering scalable software systems, with a strong full-stack background spanning backend services and frontend or developer-facing interfaces
• Demonstrated experience leading technical architecture for a platform, product, or engineering team
• Experience building, deploying, or operating LLM-powered agents or AI platform infrastructure
• Familiarity with AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot) and experience extending them through custom plugins, skills, or hooks
• Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol), tool use patterns, or similar agentic integration frameworks
• Strong prompt engineering skills and intuition for how LLM behavior responds to context and instructions
• Strong foundation in modern backend (Java, Kotlin, or similar) and frontend (TypeScript, React, or similar) technologies
• A bias towards action and comfort operating in ambiguous, rapidly evolving problem spaces