This role pays more than
93%
of similar roles. Most pay
$174,600–$225,000
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$299k
versus about
$200k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Toast, Inc.
Toast is a cloud-based restaurant management platform providing point-of-sale, payment processing, and operations software for the food service industry.
Toast, Inc. currently has
29 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$190,000–$304,000
across 29 roles with salary data.
Principal Software Engineer
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will join the team responsible for the foundational domains of the Team Suite products, specifically Payroll and Team Management. You will lead architectural design, technical execution, and implementation while driving modern patterns like spec-driven development and agentic workflows to transform the platform into an agentic system-of-action. Your daily responsibilities include owning architecture for authentication, authorization, and organizational hierarchy, mentoring developers through code-pairing, and defining technical strategies for multi-part business problems. You will work with a tech stack including Java, Kotlin, React, microservices, API design patterns, and data analytics. The role focuses on solving complex challenges in the restaurant industry by building high-scale SaaS solutions that manage payroll, taxes, hiring, and scheduling while integrating LLMs and cutting-edge AI tools to enhance development velocity and quality.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?
Median $204500 from 415 postings across 57 companies.