Senior Software Engineer, GTM and AI Strategy

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.

Toast is looking for a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to join the GTM & AI Strategy Engineering this role you will be a primary builder of 0-to-1 tools designed to revolutionize how our sales teams operate. This isnt about maintaining legacy systems; its about writing the code and building the intelligence models that eliminate friction across the Go-To-Market stack.

Working under Senior Technical Leaders guidance you will be responsible for building and productionizing agentic workflows and RAG pipelines to automate sales processes. You will integrate AI services into the tech stack while maintaining rigorous standards for observability and performance monitoring.

A day in the life (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.
• 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 key executor to solve complex synchronization and architectural challenges across the GTM stack ensuring systems are scalable and resilient.
• 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.

What youll need to thrive (Requirements)

• Deep Backend Expertise: Extensive experience in backend languages (Java Go Python) with a track record of building complex distributed systems.
• Applied AI/ML Skills: Practical hands-on experience building LLM agents in a production environment.
• Systems Architecture: Ability to implement event-driven architectures and manage data flow across disparate systems with high integrity.
• Education: Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

What will help you stand out (Nonessential Skills/Nice to Haves)

• 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.

**This is a hybrid role requiring in-office collaboration two days per week in our Dublin office.**

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AI at Toast

At Toast one of our company values is that were hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster more independently and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; its a core part of our culture.

Our Total Rewards Philosophy
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract retain and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at Toast Uses AI in its Hiring Process

Throughout the hiring process our goal is to get to know you. We use AI tools to support our recruiters and interviewers with tasks like note-taking summarization and documentation of interviews to ensure they can be fully focused on your conversation. All hiring decisions are made by people.

Diversity Equity and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success

At Toast our employees are our secret ingredientwhen they thrive we restaurant industry is one of the most diverse and we embrace that diversity with authenticity inclusivity respect and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.

We Thrive Together

We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally check out: today!

Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process please contact .

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