Staff Software Engineer, Android

Toast is driven by building the all-in-one restaurant platform that helps restaurants operate their business increase sales engage guests and keep employees happy. The Toast POS (point-of-sale) app is the central pillar of Toasts restaurant products. Millions of servers hosts bartenders and chefs use Toasts POS daily to serve their guests!

Toast is looking for a Tech lead (Staff) Android Engineer to join our new Upsells platform team. This team is responsible for creating a new platform within the Toast POS for smart upsell suggestions using Generative AI models. The platform helps staff in real time with upsell suggestions and approaches and works across multiple channels such as ToastGo server devices guest facing displays and self-serve kiosks. It provides a unified experience and enables restaurants to increase sales and upskill staff quickly - maximizing revenue and restaurant efficiency.

If you want to be at the forefront of creating something tangible that is used every day to help restaurants worldwide achieve their vision then Toast is the place for you.

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

• Lead of a team of talented Android engineers technically - working collaboratively with UX PM QA and other engineers building Android applications using modern technologies
• Deliver significant products and core capabilities across teams becoming a domain expert for our product.
• Lead the design and execution of efforts with broad customer impact
• Drive best practices and help choose technologies to evolve our current tech stack while writing world-class applications
• Champion best practices such as quality integration and unit testing
• Provide expert design feedback and input deeply into code reviews to ensure implementations meet requirements
• Ensure that all work done by the team is delivered with quality and is appropriately monitored and supported in production
• Coach and mentor other team members to enhance the teams effectiveness

Do you have the right ingredients* (Requirements)

• Passionate about building great software
• Tech Lead experience or skills
• Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics
• Proficient in all aspects of Android development
• Proficient in Software Development best practices (Code Quality UnitTest BDD)
• Experience with Selenium or Espresso / Screenshot testing
• Experience delivering high-quality reliable services to production
• Familiar with traditional databases and alternative data stores

What we use to make our dish (Our Tech Stack)

• A core of Kotlin & Java based backend services.
• React SPAs leveraging Tailwind GraphQL and Storybook.
• Android app built in Java & Kotlin running in the restaurant.
• DynamoDB and PostgreSQL as core persistence.
• Pulsar Camel and RabbitMQ for message-based integrations.
• And many more technologies that help us build a top class platform.

*** This is a hybrid role requiring in-office presence two days per week ***

Our Spread* of Total Rewards

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 love a great bread/food pun