Principal Software Engineer - AI Foundations

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. Your mission is to lead the architectural design, technical execution, and implementation of AI agents and infrastructure for Toast's Team area within our FinTech line of business. The Team area is a mission-critical space on which our restaurants rely to manage their staff and optimize their labor. As a Principal Engineer, you will serve as a key technical leader in the group, driving modern architectural patterns—including spec-driven development and agentic workflows—to deliver high-impact software. A Day in the Life (Responsibilities) Define and execute the technical architecture for AI agents within the Team domain, ensuring systems are scalable, reliable, and secure. Partner closely with Engineering Managers and Product Managers to translate product roadmaps into robust technical designs and deliverables. Maintain a strong hands-on presence, writing code, prototyping new patterns, and resolving complex technical bottlenecks under load. Collaborate with Principal and Senior Principal Engineers across Toast to align on best practices, agent patterns, and spec-driven development paradigms. Guide, mentor, and elevate engineers within the Team area, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning. What You'll Need to Thrive (Requirements) 10+ years of experience designing, building, and operating highly scalable, mission-critical distributed systems and SaaS products (ideally AWS-hosted). Proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives and delivering robust software architecture from design to production. Strong enthusiasm for agentic development practices, LLM integration, and modern software paradigms. Balanced expertise: Ability to design high-level technical solutions on a whiteboard while remaining deeply connected to code-level execution and s

Gong harnesses the power of AI to transform how revenue teams win. The Gong Revenue AI Operating System unifies data, insights, and workflows into a single, trusted system that observes, guides, and acts alongside the world’s most successful revenue teams. Powered by the Gong Revenue Graph, AI-powered intelligence, specialized agents, and trusted applications, Gong helps more than 5,000 companies around the world deeply understand their teams and customers, automate critical sales workflows, and close more deals with less effort. For more information, visit www.gong.io. At Gong, you will join a company built on innovative products, ambitious goals, and passionate people. We are shaping the future of revenue intelligence and we want people who are excited to build what comes next. You will work with a team that dreams big, moves fast, and cares deeply about the craft and about each other. Here, transparency and trust are core to how we operate, and every person has the opportunity to make a visible impact. If you want to grow, stretch, and do work that truly matters, Gong is the place to do the best work of your career. Staff Software Engineer Want to tackle complex technical challenges, lead innovative solutions, and shape the future of our product? As a Staff Software Engineer at Gong, you will play a pivotal role in revolutionizing how companies understand their customer interactions. You will be instrumental in designing and leading the development of scalable systems, working with cutting-edge technologies, and collaborating extensively with cross-functional teams across the organization to solve high-impact problems. Note: *We operate in a flexible hybrid work model, 3 days a week in office As a Staff Engineer, you will: Design and implement scalable, high-performance backend services and APIs using Java, Spring Boot, and cloud technologies. Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers, guiding them in best practices and architectural de

Our MDM team is seeking an experienced Principal Full-Stack engineer, to join an established engineering team. You will work on our D&B Connect application, a strategic self-service Master Data Management (MDM) platform that enables customers to cleanse, match, enrich, monitor, and manage their first-party data using D&B's Commercial Graph and D-U-N-S®-anchored data assets. This serves as our primary MDM customer-facing platform, accessed via web UI plus CRM, Marketing and Cloud Data Warehouse integrations with planned support for AI-driven headless access through MCP tools. The Principal Engineer (Full Stack) is responsible for working across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth. This role needs to complete the assigned projects with end-to-end ownership. Team Overview Design and evolve enterprise-grade Master Data Management (MDM) platforms powering core business entities (e.g., customers, suppliers, leads, reference data) Address challenges in data quality , identity resolution , integration , and governance at scale Build highly available, resilient systems that support both real-time and batch workloads across global regions Collaborate with product, data, and platform teams to transform business needs into scalable technical solutions Key Responsibilities Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth Partner with development and product teams to ensure product quality in a fast-paced Agile environment Partner with SRE team to deploy and manage data infrastructure on cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS<

Fin is the AI Customer Agent company on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences. Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey – from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk for one single system that is designed to meet the needs of modern day support teams. Founded in 2011, Fin became one of the fastest growing companies and remains one of the largest private software companies in the world with nearly 30,000 global businesses using our products to transform their customer support. Driven by our core values, we push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and relentlessly deliver incredible value to our customers. We are looking for a technically-capable product leader to head up AI Design at Fin. Fin is the #1 AI agent for customer service — a full-stack, vertically integrated AI system powered by our own in-house models, Apex, designed specifically for customer experiences. The role is to lead the Design function within our AI Group, where our custom models and core Fin functionality are developed. You will be managing our AI Designers (currently 3 Staff/Principal level AI Designers). You will work directly with AI Engineers and Scientists in our AI Group , and Product Designers and teams in our R&D group. We believe that leading AI Design is a new type of product leadership role that combines technical, product, and leadership qualities. This includes shaping how the Fin AI models and harness behave — how they reason, respond, and improve over time. The experience is defined as much by model behavior, evals, and iteration loops as it is by UI. We’re looking for someone to lead in that world.

Fin is the AI Customer Agent company on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences. Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey – from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk for one single system that is designed to meet the needs of modern day support teams. Founded in 2011, Fin became one of the fastest growing companies and remains one of the largest private software companies in the world with nearly 30,000 global businesses using our products to transform their customer support. Driven by our core values, we push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and relentlessly deliver incredible value to our customers. What's the opportunity? As an Enterprise CSM, you’ll partner with our largest and most complex enterprise customers to help them succeed in the new era of AI-driven customer service. You’ll work with C-suite leaders and their teams to guide them through their AI Agent transformation with Fin — as both a Customer Agent and a Service Agent — from early project scoping and requirements gathering, to measurable adoption, to industry-best automation rates and business outcomes. This role is an opportunity to shape how the world’s leading companies deploy AI to transform their customer and support operations — and to achieve strategic outcomes aligned to their business goals. What will I be doing? Develop trusted advisor relationships with customers (from c-suite stakeholders to individual contributors across a focused portfolio of high-value enterprise accounts. Facilitate requirements gathering and process mapping for the customer’s standard operating procedures; document in clear, pre

Fin is the AI Customer Agent company on a mission to help businesses provide perfect customer experiences. Our AI Agent Fin is the highest-performing AI Customer Agent on the market today, enabling businesses to deliver impeccable, always-on customer support across the customer journey – from service, to sales, to ecommerce. Powered by our own AI models, Fin resolves complex customer issues end-to-end across every channel, with minimal set-up and integration. Fin can also be combined with our natively integrated Intercom help desk for one single system that is designed to meet the needs of modern day support teams. Founded in 2011, Fin became one of the fastest growing companies and remains one of the largest private software companies in the world with nearly 30,000 global businesses using our products to transform their customer support. Driven by our core values, we push boundaries, build with speed and intensity, and relentlessly deliver incredible value to our customers. What's the opportunity? We’re looking for an analytical, curious, and impact-driven Principal Sales Operations &amp; Strategy Manager to join our Revenue Operations team. Our departmental mission is to serve as the critical bridge between Product and Sales, ensuring the effective, high-velocity commercial launch of our strategic AI products. This leader will operate as the primary strategic integrator across Product, Engineering, and GTM teams, directly owning the commercial success of our most ambitious new AI products in market. You will be responsible for moving us from fragmented Product / GTM planning to a unified, predictable launch machine, defining the 'Sales Ready' gate, embedding GTM strategy early in the product lifecycle, and translating engineering velocity into comm