Senior Principal Software Engineer - AI Pod

**This role is based in Dublin where full relocation support will be offered** 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. Because our technology is purpose-built for restaurants, by restaurant people - and increasingly shaped by AI in both what we build and how we build - restaurants can trust that we'll deliver on their needs for today while investing in the experiences that will power their restaurant of the future. An AI pod is Toast's AI-native engineering team, a focused pod of specialists who tackle complex, high-impact problems across Toast's product and platform landscape using AI-first approaches. As Senior Principal Software Engineer and Senior Architect, you will be one of the most senior technologists at Toast, setting the technical vision and architectural direction for the pod while remaining hands-on in its most ambitious work. You'll define how AI-native engineering is done at Toast and spread those patterns across the organization. A day in the life (Responsibilities) Develop and drive the architectural vision for AI Pod, establishing patterns for AI-native development that scale across Toast engineering Be an active participant and authoritative technical voice in cross-organizational strategy and architecture discussions Lead the pod's most complex, high-impact initiatives from design through production — staying ha