Senior Android Engineer

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.

A bit about the team

The mission of the International Europe team is to purpose build features for our European 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.

A day in the life (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

What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

• 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

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

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

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 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 PhilosophyWe 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.