Senior Software Engineer, Android

Location: Costa Mesa, CA #LI-HYBRID #BI-HYBRID

 

Who We Are

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.

Are you bready* for a change?

Toast currently serves hundreds of multi-unit brands, including Caribou Coffee, Choice Hotels, Craveworthy Brands, WaBa Grill, Nothing Bundt Cakes, Papa Gino's & D'Angelo, Costa Vida Fresh Mexican Grill, and The Human Bean, among others. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our enterprise drive-thru team and help us build the best-in-class drive-thru solutions that enable significant future growth. You will get to work across the entire Toast platform, including our scalable backend, customer-facing web apps, and everything else in between. As a member of the Drive-Thru Enterprise team, you will help ensure our products are built to meet the evolving needs of these customers. You can read more on our Toast for Enterprise Page.

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features across Toast’s enterprise management products
• Hands-on design and implementation of Android applications in Kotlin
• Lead complex projects that improve the functionality and reliability of our products
• Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes
• Contribute to the overall quality of the Android and backend systems
• Collaborate with UX, PM, QA, and Engineering to define, design, and build best-in-class solutions in a complex and fast-moving environment
• Guide the growth & development of peer engineers with mentoring and coaching

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• 5+ years of prior experience developing and maintaining Android applications
• Experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems, and/or microservices
• Proficient with modern API standards and technologies (e.g., REST, GraphQL)
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Passionate about driving innovation and continuously improving engineering practices
• Proven track record of technical leadership and contribution to complex projects
• Has a growth mindset with an emphasis on improving yourself and your team
• Balances getting things done with platform stability
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science

 

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

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

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.