Principal Engineer, Card Readers Team

Benefits

Parental leave

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Non-birth-parent leave

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Family-building benefits

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Mental health support

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Relocation assistance

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Childcare support

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Learning budget

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Verification

Not verified checked Jun 7, 2026

Salary

$230K-$368K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

157% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Principal From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Work mode

Remote From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

In-office days

0 days From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

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Weekend work

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Company

Company stage

Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Equity

Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

Application

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Assessment

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Deadline

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About this role

Principal Engineer, Card Readers Team Remote, US 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. As a Principal Engineer on the Card Readers team, you will be a technical leader responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our POS payment integrations. You will work closely with hardware SDKs, the core POS application team, and other cross-functional stakeholders to drive technical decisions and define the target architecture for our payment solutions. Your expertise in high-throughput asynchronous JVM solutions, coupled with a deep understanding of mission-critical transactional processing, will be crucial in delivering robust and scalable solutions. A day in the life (Responsibilities) - Develop and execute technical strategies to solve complex business challenges, leveraging data and customer insights to prioritize impactful improvements. - Establish guiding technical and delivery principles that influence engineering practices across the broader engineering organization. - Architect, design, and develop robust, high-performance applications using Kotlin, optimized for security, speed, availability, and reliability. - Raise the bar as a high-throughput, hands-on code contributor modeling high standards. - Lead agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives. - 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. - Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to

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