Principal Software Engineer

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. As a Principal Engineer / architect you will be responsible for creating a technical strategy and coordinating the designs for meeting the needs of Toast’s largest restaurant brands. You will partner with Product Managers to develop the technology roadmap that enables enterprise customers to leverage the power of Toast. You will also work closely with technical leaders and implementation teams across the organization to deliver robust, scalable solutions with integrations to customers’ external systems. While the role is primarily internally-facing, it requires infrequent interactions with enterprise customers, listening to their requirements and providing expert guidance as they deploy Toast. If you’re a technical leader or a solutions architect, experienced with enterprise SaaS, passionate about customer value, and a great collaborator, read on!  A day in the life (Responsibilities) * Lead the evolution of Toast’s backend architecture, frameworks, and data models with a strong focus on delivery efficiency, system scalability, and resilience. * Design and build the next generation of accounting and financial systems using Java, Kotlin, DynamoDB, Pulsar, GraphQL, Big Data tools, and more. * Define and implement scalable engineering practices, delivery frameworks, and coding standards that raise the technical bar across the org. * Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, UX, QA, and multiple engineering teams to deliver robust, customer-facing solutions. * Build and maintain strong partnerships across business units, aligning technology strategies with key company objectives. * Champion data-driven decision making by developing strategies and prioritizing initiatives with high impact on user and business outcomes. * Mentor and grow engineers across levels, promoting a culture of inclusivity, continuous learning, and engineering excellence. * Guide and influence the broader technical roadmap and architecture strategy for Toast. * Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team What you'll need to thrive (Requirements) * 12+ years of experience designing and delivering complex, scalable backend systems. * Proven technical leadership on mission-critical projects, with the ability to influence across multiple teams. * Strong experience building distributed, event-driven architectures and microservices in Java, Kotlin, Scala, or similar OOP languages. * Deep understanding of data architecture and schema design; experience with DynamoDB is a plus. * Hands-on experience with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure. * Strong knowledge of modern database systems (Postgres, SQL Server, DynamoDB). * Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment, delivering value continuously. * Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to break down complexity and drive solutions that scale. * A passion for building impactful products with a customer-first mindset. * Strong interpersonal and leadership skills—respectful, empathetic, humble, and inclusive. * A growth mindset with a desire to constantly learn and uplift others. * Comfortable balancing velocity with platform stability and long-term architecture goals. * Comfortable using AI-powered engineering tools to improve developer productivity, code quality, and technical decision-making, with the ability to critically evaluate and validate AI-generated solutions.  * Demonstrated experience incorporating AI into the software development lifecycle to improve engineering effectiveness, and the ability to champion best practices for responsible, secure, and high-impact AI adoption across engineering teams.  AI at Toast At Toast, one of our company values is that we're 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; it’s 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 https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits. How 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. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring Our Approach to Hybrid Working 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 hospitality community, regardless of location. Please visit the Locations page on our career site to learn more about our in-office expectations by region: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The 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: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast. Apply 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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com. ------ For roles in the United States, it is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. ABOUT THE TEAM Okta's Core Engineering team is responsible for building and evolving shared infrastructure and services that lay the foundation for what other engineering teams build on. We're in charge of common shared services like distributed cache, configuration management, frameworks for async job management, internal tooling for developer support, and email pipeline, to name a few. We're cloud native, where redundancy, multi-tenancy, scale, resource optimization and resiliency are first class citizens. With Okta's mantra of 'Always On!' there's never a dull moment. Our biggest asset is our team of passionate engineers and technically minded managers.  ROLE: This is an opportunity for an experienced Backend engineer to join our growing Core Platform team based out of Bengaluru. In this role, you will get to work with highly skilled and talented engineers throughout the organization to build and manage some of the critical platform services powering Okta’s products and infrastructure. This role requires a blend of high-level architectural thinking and hands-on execution to build resilient, high-performance backend services. We are not only passionate about building services but operating them at scale, making them resilient to provide a seamless service to our customers. You'll be leading a team of highly skilled and talented team players who're proud of what they own and deliver. Our elite team is fast, creative and flexible; with a weekly release cycle and individual ownership we expect great things from our engineers and reward them with stimulating new projects, new technologies and the chance to have  RESPONSIBILITIES: * Work with engineering teams to design, develop and deliver cloud based infrastructure projects on a modern tech stack (Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker, Terraform on AWS) * Drive evaluation, development and roll out of new common microservices * Operate, support, and upgrade shared services and frameworks. Scale these as their usage invariably grows along with Okta's business. * Help with design and code reviews. Ensure high programming standard by writing unit and functional tests. * Be part of a structured on-call roster, assist with monitoring, troubleshooting of services and frameworks the team owns * Collaborate with architects, QA, product owners, security and operations engineers * Help with mentoring new engineering hires and interns MINIMUM REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: * Immense passion about doing the right thing to help Okta's technology stay ahead of its anticipated business growth * Solid technology chops in architecting, implementing, tuning and debugging services in a Cloud native environment preferably in the enterprise world * Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent * 12+ yrs of expansive programming experience in an object-oriented programming language like Java, especially in backend services. A good understanding of multithreading, garbage collection, memory management. * 7+ yrs experience of working with MySQL or equivalent relational database systems.  * Demonstrated experience of working with ReST and good understanding of its fundamentals * Knowledge of Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate and Tomcat * Knowledge of AWS, Redis, Elasticsearch, and Docker * Demonstrably followed best software engineering principles * Familiarity with Agile software development process NICE TO HAVE: * Maintained security, encryption, identity management, or authentication infrastructure * Leveraged major public cloud providers to build mission-critical, distributed systems for high availability and scale * Experience developing Kubernetes based services on AWS Stack   #LI-Hybrid P22377_3405787 The Okta Experience * Supporting Your Well-Being  * Driving Social Impact  * Developing Talent and Fostering Connection + Community We are intentional about connection. Our global community, spanning over 20 offices worldwide, is united by a drive to innovate. Your journey begins with an immersive, in-person onboarding experience designed to accelerate your impact and connect you to our mission and team from day one. Okta is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, or status as a protected veteran. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and convictions records, consistent with applicable laws. If reasonable accommodation is needed to complete any part of the job application, interview process, or onboarding please use this Form to request an accommodation. 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