Staff Software Engineer, Android

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.

Toast is looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Android to join the Membership POS team in India. You'll play a key role in building the platform that manages subscriptions and memberships and tracks usage of member benefits for customers and guests—all within Toast’s ecosystem.

A day in the life (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 Java or Kotlin.
• Lead complex projects that improve functionality and reliability for our customers 
• Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast 
• Contribute to the overall quality of the Android system
• Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes
• Roll* features out to customers, including monitoring for success
• Collaborate with UX and PM on the definition and design of features  
• Mentor and coach other engineers
• Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team.

What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

• Minimum Bachelors degree required.
• 10+ years prior experience developing and maintaining Android applications
• Experience building backend services and APIs
• Extensive experience working with an Object Oriented Language like Java or Kotlin, with a deep understanding of testing, quality, and best practices
• Experience shipping production services and balancing getting things done with platform stability and reliability
• Focused on delivering positive impact for Toast customers
• Enjoys working in a team environment with a shared code-base
• Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics

We are hiring individuals with a wide range of experience so if you have more or less than these exact roles, please still apply!

Our Tech Stack

Toast’s products run on a stack that ranges from guest and restaurant-facing Android tablets to backend services in Java to internal, guest-facing and restaurant-facing web apps. Our backend services follow a microservice architecture written using Java 8 and DropWizard; we use AWS extensively, ranging from S3 to RDS to Lambda. We have our own platform for dealing with user management, service elevations and robust load balancing. Toast stores data in a set of sharded Postgres databases and utilises Apache Spark for large-scale data workloads, including query and batch processing. The front-end is built primarily using React and ES6. The main Toast POS application is an Android application written in Java and Kotlin. For data between tablets and our cloud platform, we operate RabbitMQ clusters as well as direct tablet communication to the back end.

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.