Principal Android Engineer, Tables & Order Workflow

Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.

The Toast POS app is the central pillar of Toast’s restaurant products. Every day, many thousands of servers, hosts, bartenders, and chefs use Toast’s POS to serve millions of guests!

At Toast, Android isn’t just one of multiple mobile platforms -- Android is the foundational technology stack for our POS products. In fact, Toast designs and sells our own specialized Android tablets so we can provide the best integrated hardware/software products.

Our POS Tables & Order Workflow team powers some of the restaurant’s most critical workflows starting from the service area drawings, table management and server assignment to every mutation of an order before it is handed off to the fulfillment workflows over a coordinated network of tablets and peripherals that are typically used for 10-12 hours a day. The POS needs to work as fast as possible, and if the network has problems, the POS needs to keep running! Addressing these demanding requirements means pushing our technology stack to the limits.

Whether on a handheld or a tablet, servers and cashiers spend nearly all of their working hours in our part of the POS. When we design new features with a great UX, we improve their job satisfaction, the guest experience, and our customer’s bottom line. Small changes in the tightest loops pay off many thousands of times over. Innovative new features from Toast help our restaurant and retail locations thrive

We are seeking an experienced tech lead with the demonstrated ability to drive quality and culture on the team and impact across a broader organization. This is a hands-on technical role that includes a significant component of large scale technical design, cross-team collaboration, leadership and mentoring investment in more junior engineers.

About this roll\* (Responsibilities)

• Establish technical direction for the team, in collaboration with the POS architect and tech lead cohort
• Accountable for technical quality of Table & Order Workflows’ deliverables
• Drive continuous improvement of architecture, codebase and technical practice
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical leaders to break down business problems into projects that can be executed across the organization
• Lead software design for major features and components, and support less experienced engineers in the software design process
• Mentor less experienced engineers and contribute to their growth
• Lead effort estimation and use sound judgment to enable planning of projects
• Act as a force multiplier for the POS engineering organization overall

Do you have the right ingredients\*? (Requirements)

• Ideally 8+ years of experience delivering mobile products to a large customer base
• Experience in mobile codebases with dozens of developers
• Deep experience with Java, Kotlin, and Android
• Experienced at communicating technical designs and contributing to the design process
• History of technical and business impact across multiple teams
• Collaborative and solution-oriented partner to business and product leaders
• Experience with distributed service and event driven architecture highly desired

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.

\*Bread puns encouraged but not required

The base salary range for this role is listed below. The starting salary will be determined based on skills and experience. In addition to base salary, our total rewards components include cash compensation (overtime, bonus/commissions, if eligible), benefits, and equity (if eligible).

**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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