Toast is driven by building the all-in-one restaurant platform that helps restaurants operate their business, increase sales, engage guests, and keep employees happy. The Toast POS (point-of-sale) app is the central pillar of Toast’s restaurant products. Millions of servers, hosts, bartenders, and chefs use Toast’s POS daily to serve their guests!
Toast is looking for a Tech lead (Staff) Android Engineer to join our new Upsells platform team. This team is responsible for creating a new platform within the Toast POS for smart upsell suggestions using Generative AI models. The platform helps staff in real time with upsell suggestions and approaches and works across multiple channels such as ToastGo server devices, guest facing displays and self-serve kiosks. It provides a unified experience and enables restaurants to increase sales and upskill staff quickly - maximizing revenue and restaurant efficiency.
If you want to be at the forefront of creating something tangible that is used every day to help restaurants worldwide achieve their vision, then Toast is the place for you.
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
- Lead of a team of talented Android engineers technically - working collaboratively with UX, PM, QA and other engineers building Android applications using modern technologies
- Deliver significant products and core capabilities across teams becoming a domain expert for our product.
- Lead the design and execution of efforts with broad customer impact
- Drive best practices and help choose technologies to evolve our current tech stack while writing world-class applications
- Champion best practices such as quality integration and unit testing
- Provide expert design feedback and input deeply into code reviews to ensure implementations meet requirements
- Ensure that all work done by the team is delivered with quality and is appropriately monitored and supported in production
- Coach and mentor other team members to enhance the team's effectiveness
Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)
- Passionate about building great software
- Tech Lead experience or skills
- Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics
- Proficient in all aspects of Android development
- Proficient in Software Development best practices (Code Quality, UnitTest, BDD)
- Experience with Selenium or Espresso / Screenshot testing
- Experience delivering high-quality, reliable services to production
- Familiar with traditional databases and alternative data stores
What we use to make our dish (Our Tech Stack)
- A core of Kotlin & Java based backend services.
- React SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook.
- Android app built in Java & Kotlin running in the restaurant.
- DynamoDB and PostgreSQL as core persistence.
- Pulsar, Camel and RabbitMQ for message-based integrations.
- And many more technologies that help us build a top class platform.
*** This is a hybrid role requiring in-office presence two days per week ***
Our Spread* of Total Rewards
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.
*We love a great bread/food pun
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success
At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse, and we embrace that diversity with authenticity, inclusivity, respect, and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design, we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.
We Thrive Together
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 restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally, check out: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast.
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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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.
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