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Toast reports $154M Q2 net income as ARR reaches $2.4B
Q2 2026 revenue rose 23% year over year to $1.91B. Toast added about 9,500 net locations, grew ARR 25% to $2.4B and reported $154M in net income.
Toast debuts AI-powered Toast IQ Grow marketing suite
Toast introduced Toast IQ Grow with an AI Marketing Agent, a redesigned Toast Local app and more than 20 updates spanning marketing, payroll, inventory and operations.
Toast launches unified enterprise drive-thru platform
Toast Drive-Thru combines POS software, kitchen displays, digital menu boards, hardware, services and AI voice-ordering integrations for quick-service restaurant chains.
Toast appoints Rossana Niola chief accounting officer
Toast's board appointed former Mastercard executive Rossana Niola as chief accounting officer and principal accounting officer, succeeding CFO Elena Gomez in the interim accounting roles.
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Define and drive the technical architecture for the AI Foundations platform, leading full‑stack design and delivery of LLM proxies, AI key management, observability pipelines, and internal plugin marketplace.
10+ years of full‑stack engineering experience, proven platform architecture leadership, and hands‑on work with LLM‑powered agents or AI infrastructure, plus strong Java/Kotlin and TypeScript/React skills.
The role shapes the core AI platform that powers reliable, scalable AI capabilities across Toast’s product suite, enabling the company to deliver next‑generation restaurant technology.
A senior engineer who thrives on setting technical direction, mentoring teams, and building both backend services and developer‑facing frontends while navigating fast‑moving AI landscapes.
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. Because our technology is purpose-built for restaurants, by restaurant people - and increasingly shaped by AI in both what we build and how we build - restaurants can trust that we'll deliver on their needs for today while investing in the experiences that will power their restaurant of the future.
AI Foundations is Toast's internal platform team for AI. We build the infrastructure, governance, and developer tooling that makes AI a reliable, scalable force multiplier across the entire product development lifecycle. Our products include the LLM Proxy, AI Key Management, Observability pipelines, the Claude Plugin Marketplace, and autonomous agents that participate directly in the software development lifecycle.
As a Principal Software Engineer, you'll set the technical direction for how we design, build, and evolve these systems, working full-stack across the agentic workflows that employees across Toast depend on every day. This role is for someone who can drive architecture, raise the engineering bar across the team, and stay hands-on building.
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What will make you stand out
**This role requires a minimum of two days per week in our Dublin office**
AI at Toast
At Toast, one of our company values is that we're hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster, more independently, and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support, and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; it’s a core part of our culture.
Our Total Rewards Philosophy
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract, retain, and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters’ changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at https://careers.toasttab.com/toast-benefits.
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.
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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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