Senior Android Engineer, Canada & Strategic Cuisines

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.

The mission of the Canada and Emerging Markets team is to improve our product to be the best in Canada and across markets in the US where operators, staff, or guests are more familiar with other hospitality cultures (think Tapas, Dim Sum, etc). As a Senior Engineer, you will focus on developing critical features for North America in collaboration with your team, Product Manager, and multiple customers nationwide. These customers include small and huge restaurants with a single owner or various locations.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features across Toast’s products; Hands-on design and implementation of Android applications in Java or Kotlin


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


• Work across software both in the restaurant and the cloud


• 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


• Taking ownership of the Android system


• 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

What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

• Proficient in Android development




• Understanding of Activities, Fragments, Services.


• Reactivity.


• Dependency Injection with Dagger


• Android XML layouts


• Coroutines




• Familiar with modern backend technologies (Java, Kotlin, or equivalents)


• Interested in working across the technology stack to solve real-world problems


• 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.


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

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.