Senior Software Engineer

Senior Android Engineer, International Europe

Now, more than ever, the Toast team is committed to our customers. We’re taking steps to help restaurants navigate these unprecedented times with technology, resources, and community. Our focus is on building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love. And because our technology is purpose-built for restaurants, by restaurant people, restaurants can trust that we’ll deliver on their needs for today while investing in experiences that will power their restaurant of the future.

Are you bready* for a change?

The mission of the International APAC team is to purpose build features for our APAC customers that fit their specific market needs. As part of this team’s mission you will get close to customers to fully understand the nuances of each of these markets. As a Senior Engineer you will be responsible for delivering these features from start to finish, ensuring code quality, high technical architectural standards and high quality products. You will also have the opportunity to mentor and upskill others.

The team works closely with other teams, driving key international business objectives while improving the productivity of the entire Toast engineering organization. Key areas of focus include distributed systems, infrastructure, tooling, and workflows, all of which are essential for the success of Toast's products in international markets.

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features across Toast’s products

Evolve Toast’s existing products suite to meet global market needs

Build core features into the Point of Sale

Work directly with pilot customers (sometimes in the restaurant!) to ensure successful delivery and operation

Collaborate with the team to plan and estimate work

Collaborate with teams across Toast

Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes

Collaborate with UX and PM on the definition and design of features

Mentor and coach other engineers

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Qualities & Essential Skills)

High level of proficiency with Kotlin, Java or another object-oriented language, with a deep understanding of testing, quality & best practices.

High level of proficiency working with Android systems

The ability to take complex business problems, and create easy-to-use solutions at scale.

Working experience of API principles e.g. REST

Enjoys building well-engineered, usable and accessible systems

Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild

Ability to embrace an agile mindset focused on delivering usable software

Adaptable to work in changing environments

Enjoys AI usage for efficiency gain, innovation

Overall 6 - 8 years of experience of working in Android systems

Special Sauce* (Nice to Haves)

Proficiency in Android development

Understanding of Activities, Fragments, Services.

Reactivity.

Dependency Injection with Dagger

Android XML layouts

Coroutines

Proficiency in Software Development best practices (Code Quality, UnitTest, BDD)

Experience working in backend Java/Kotlin micro services

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 running in the restaurant.

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.

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.

Apply today!

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 [email protected].

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