Senior Software Engineer - Android

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. Toast connects employees, operations, and guests on a reliable, easy-to-use platform so restaurateurs can stay one step ahead of a rapidly evolving hospitality market. 

Are you bready* to make a change?

We are building the ‘Enterprise Payments’  team from the ground up, that will help lead Toast on its journey for expansion to Enterprise customers (like Marriott  etc), globally. This team will help fuel Toast’s expansion by developing  & supporting a strong payments foundation.
As a Senior-Software-Engineer on this  team, you would get to build, innovate and upscale the next generation of our software solutions, with a Global first mindset, working closely with UX/PM/QA and customers to deliver the most value that fits our customers market and culture. 

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features across Toast’s Enterprise line-of-products.
• Lead complex projects that may span multiple teams & systems.
• Collaborate with PM, UX & QA, and other engineers, on the development of new features & products.
• Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast.
• Drive high-quality team output and ensure that the team makes solid technical decisions.
• Collaborate with peer engineers, provide design feedback, and participate in code reviews.
• Champion best practices for SDLC & CICD life-cycles.
• Ensure quality by building automated testing for changes.
• Roll* features out to customers, ensuring successful delivery and operation, including monitoring for success and/or failures.
• Mentor & coach your peer engineers.

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• A minimum of three year degree in any area, or any other related discipline
• 5+ years of experience building Android applications.
• Proficiency in Android development (Kotlin or Java).
• Have strong understanding of fault-tolerant, highly-scalable & secure distributed systems.
• Awareness of MVVM architecture style & Reactive Programming.
• Passionate about building great software products.
• You demonstrate humility, empathy and respectfulness.
• Proficiency in SDLC best practices.
• Proficiency in testing android applications & delivering high-quality, reliable apps to production.
• Excellent cross-team communication skills on complex technical topics.
• Familiar with traditional databases and alternative data stores.
• Familiar with modern web standards and technologies (e.g. React, Typescript).
• Experience working with Cloud Infrastructure (AWS or similar).

Special Sauce* (Nice to Haves)

• Have knowledge and hands-on experience of building backend services & RESTful APIs.
• Proficiency with sql/nosql databases, strong understanding of distributed datastores and knowledge of when to use what.

What we use to make our dish: (Our Tech Stack)

• Android apps built using Kotlin & Java.
• Backend services which follow a microservice architecture written using Kotlin, Java and DropWizard
• Event driven messaging & streaming using Apache Pulsar & RabbitMQ.
• Apache Camel for implementing Enterprise Integration Pattern.
• React & ES6 based Frontend SPAs leveraging Tailwind, GraphQL and Storybook.
• DynamoDb & Postgres as core persistence data-storage layers.
• Datadog & Sentry for system and application metric and monitoring. 
• Splunk for log aggregation.
• FireHydrant for alerting.

Work Mode: This role follows a hybrid work model, requiring a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.

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.