Staff Software Engineer, GTM & AI Strategy

Toast, Inc.

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$193,000–$309,000 / yr
Posted
48 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Jan 22, 2027

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Above market

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This role $251k
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This role pays more than 75% of similar roles. Most pay $195,442–$251,100 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $251k versus about $223k for comparable roles.

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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 26 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $193,000–$309,000 across 26 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Software Engineer, GTM & AI Strategy

The Staff Software Engineer, GTM & AI Strategy joins the GTM & AI Strategy Engineering team to build 0-to-1 internal tools that revolutionize sales operations. This role involves architecting and coding high-performance backend services, ML pipelines, and productionizing agentic workflows and RAG pipelines to automate account research, lead prioritization, and complex quoting logic. You will integrate AI services into the tech stack while ensuring rigorous observability and performance monitoring. Key responsibilities include developing backend connective tissue between a custom quoting engine, Salesforce, and internal data lakes. The role requires deep expertise in Java, Go, and Python, along with practical experience building LLM agents in production environments. You will solve complex synchronization and architectural challenges to create scalable, decoupled systems within the Go-To-Market stack.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $208800 from 354 postings across 50 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Architect and code high-performance backend services and ML pipelines.
  • Build 0-to-1 internal products using LLMs and Agentic AI to automate sales processes.
  • Develop backend integrations between the quoting engine, Salesforce, and internal data lakes.
  • Productionize agentic workflows and RAG pipelines to eliminate friction in the GTM stack.
  • Solve complex synchronization and architectural challenges to ensure scalable and resilient systems.
  • Build deep observability into every service to ensure the reliability of GTM tools.
  • Design flexible, decoupled backend systems that can evolve with the company's AI strategy.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • Extensive experience in backend languages including Java, Go, and Python.
  • Track record of building complex, distributed systems.
  • Practical, hands-on experience building LLM agents in a production environment.
  • Ability to implement event-driven architectures and manage data flow across disparate systems.
  • Experience building internal Sales Tech or Fintech tools that directly impact revenue (preferred).
  • Familiarity with AWS data services such as SageMaker, Lambda, and SQS (preferred).
  • Passion for removing human-in-the-loop friction through intelligent automation (preferred).

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