Staff Software Engineer (GTM & AI Strategy)

Job summary
Permanent contract
United States of America
Fully-remote
Salary: $151K to 309K
Experience: > 5 years
Skills & expertise
Problem-solving skills
Java
Primary
Sagemaker
AWS
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Job description

  • Toast is looking for a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to join the GTM & AI Strategy Engineering team
  • In this role, you will be a primary builder of 0-to-1 tools designed to revolutionize how our sales teams operate
  • This isn’t about maintaining legacy systems; it’s about writing the code and building the intelligence models that eliminate friction across the Go-To-Market stack
  • As a technical lead, 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
  • 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

Benefits

  • Peer and company recognition programs
  • Unlimited Vacation
  • Sabbatical opportunity after five years
  • Professional Development Reimbursement Program
  • Commitment to Employee Wellness through resources such as a quarterly Wellness Stipend
  • Various peer and company recognition programs
  • 401(k) and matching
  • Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage
  • Mental Health Benefits
  • Subsidized backup childcare

Preferred experience

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

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