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# Principal Software Engineer at Toast

- **Company:** Toast
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Posted:** 2026-04-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://careers.toasttab.com/jobs?gh_jid=7845688

## Job description

Toast is building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: running the businesses they love. We’ve grown into a leading hospitality software company in the U.S., and are now entering our next phase of growth—one defined by scale, complexity, and a new class of enterprise customers.

Every restaurant is unique, and a restaurant’s menu expresses its individual brand and product offerings. Inside a Toast restaurant, the definition of the menu becomes the common language between guests, servers, and the kitchen. In our digital ordering products, a great menu serves as both a billboard and a roadmap to an excellent dining experience. It is the central hub for restaurant configuration– it determines what guests can order, how the dishes are presented and priced in different contexts, where they are routed for fulfillment and how they are coursed, how they are prepared, whether the ingredients are still available, and how they are classified for reporting. A menu is always evolving: kitchens create new dishes, managers experiment with pricing and presentation, and staff optimize the menu for restaurant operations.

We create products to satisfy the vast breadth of our restaurants, from single-location coffee shops to complex enterprise brands with thousands of locations. We offer an extremely powerful and configurable menu platform, and our team exists to ensure that this flexibility can be managed effectively at any scale. This includes feature-rich menu data models, APIs for both first and third party integrations (eg: DoorDash and other ordering partners), and the user experiences for configuring menus that meet a vast variety of needs, from complex customer segments (eg: Pizza shops) to our evolving Retail platform.

We are looking for a visionary engineer who is motivated by these challenges and eager to transform our menus architecture to meet the dynamic needs of our customers and our rapidly growing business. As a Principal Software Engineer on the Menus team, you will take ownership of this essential function, making strategic technical decisions that enhance our capabilities and ensure scalability. You will have the opportunity to make a huge impact in a critical space. Your leadership will drive excellence within the team and influence our broader engineering community, setting new standards and contributing to our collective success.

## About this roll* (Responsibilities)

- Lead the evolution of our Menus architecture and data models, delivering scalable solutions that have significant business impact.
- Define and implement frameworks and processes that guarantee the quality, resilience, and scalability of our user experiences and API platform.
- Develop and execute technical strategies to solve complex business challenges, leveraging data-driven decisions to prioritize impactful changes.
- Establish guiding technical and delivery principles that influence engineering practices across the broader engineering organization.
- Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, inclusivity, and engineering excellence.
- Build and maintain strong partnerships across lines of business, aligning technical solutions with strategic objectives.

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

- Minimum education: BE or B.Tech in a technology-related field
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a strong background in back-end development using Java, Kotlin, or other object-oriented language
- Proficient with modern API standards and technologies (e.g. REST, GraphQL)
- Proficient with relational databases and alternative data stores
- Experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems, and/or microservices
- Demonstrated ability to deliver high-impact, scalable solutions in complex, multi-product environments.
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with a track record of guiding teams through architectural transformations.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Passionate about driving innovation and continuously improving engineering practices.

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. We ask that you complete interviews and assessments on your own, without real-time AI tools, recording, or transcription bots, unless we tell you otherwise in advance. 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

People Are the Secret Ingredient in Our Recipe for Success

At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry brings together people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we value that same breadth at Toast. We strive to build a culture grounded in authenticity, respect, and humility, where every Toaster has a real opportunity to grow, contribute, and do their best work—raising the bar in delivering exceptional experiences for our customers and each other.

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.

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## About Toast

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Toast provides a cloud-based, all-in-one digital technology platform of SaaS and fintech solutions purpose-built for the restaurant and hospitality industry.
- **Entity Type**: Public (ticker: TOST)
- **Headquarters**: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Not listed in provided sources

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Restaurant technology / hospitality technology
- **Target customers**: Restaurants of all sizes (independent, chain, enterprise), other hospitality businesses (B2B)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To empower the restaurant community to delight guests, do what they love, and thrive."

## Products & Services
- **Toast POS**: Cloud-based point-of-sale system for dine-in, takeout, delivery, catering, and retail operations.
- **Toast Payments**: Integrated financial technology solutions for card processing, tipping, and payouts.
- **Toast Digital Ordering & Delivery**: Online ordering platform, website integration, and third-party delivery management.
- **Toast Marketing & Loyalty**: Tools for email/SMS marketing, guest loyalty programs, and gift cards.
- **Toast Team Management**: Scheduling, payroll, and labor management features integrated with POS.
- **Toast Operations**: Inventory management, vendor ordering, and back-of-house tools.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available from provided sources
- **Key Metric**: Headcount – over 5,000 employees globally (as of May 2026); 4,503 US-based employees (May 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not listed in provided sources
- **Growth Signals**: Expanded to 11 locations across US, Canada, Ireland, UK, India, Australia, and Taiwan; approximately 20% of open roles filled internally; hybrid work model with strong onboarding and development programs; ranked #62 on Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For 2025 and multiple other Great Place to Work awards (Best Workplaces for Parents, Women, Millennials, Technology).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep domain expertise**: Roughly two-thirds of employees have firsthand restaurant industry experience, giving unique insight into customer needs.
- **Purpose-built platform**: All-in-one system connecting front and back of house, unlike generic POS or ERP solutions.
- **Customer obsession**: Strong focus on understanding and earning customer trust, with 84% of employees rating the company a great place to work (compared to 57% at typical US firms).
- **Data-informed innovation**: Dedicated teams researching "what's next" to stay ahead of restaurant industry trends.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue empowering the restaurant community with data-informed solutions and cutting-edge technology.
- Maintain and expand geographic presence while preserving hybrid work culture.
- Invest in social impact through Toast.org, employee volunteer campaigns, and ESG initiatives.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as driven, collaborative, inclusive, and fun; 84% of employees say it's a great place to work (Great Place to Work certified).
- **Work model**: Hybrid model with in-person collaboration supported by remote/office flexibility; 90-day onboarding program includes live sessions, social events, and online courses.
- **Growth**: Professional development programs, peer and company recognition, and significant internal mobility (20% of roles filled internally).
- **Perks**: Paid time off, mental health/well-being support, computer equipment provided, regular volunteer events via Toast.org.
- **DEI**: Inclusive design, equitable practices, and diversity encouraged to reflect the diverse restaurant community.

## Sources
1. [careers.toasttab.com](https://careers.toasttab.com/) – Life at Toast, culture, values, hybrid policy
2. [careers.toasttab.com/faq](https://careers.toasttab.com/frequently-asked-questions) – Headcount, internal fill rate, onboarding, DEI
3. [glassdoor.com](https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Toast-Inc-EI_IE989964.11,20.htm) – Company type, headquarters, founded year, mission
4. [greatplacetowork.com](https://www.greatplacetowork.com/en/certified-company/7011573) – Headcount, employee survey scores, award lists

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