Android Engineer – Enterprise Drive-Thru

Staff Software Engineer, Android

Location:

Remote USA

Who We Are

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.

Are you bready
* for a change?

Toast currently serves hundreds of multi-unit brands, including Caribou Coffee, Choice Hotels, Craveworthy Brands, WaBa Grill, Nothing Bundt Cakes, Papa Gino's & D'Angelo, Costa Vida Fresh Mexican Grill, and The Human Bean, among others. We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our enterprise drive-thru team and help us build the best-in-class drive-thru solutions that enable significant future growth.

You will get to work across the entire Toast platform, including our scalable backend, customer-facing web apps, and everything else in between. As a member of the Drive-Thru Enterprise team, you will help ensure our products are built to meet the evolving needs of these customers. You can read more on our Toast for Enterprise Page.

About this roll* (Responsibilities)

• Define the long-term technical strategy and architecture for the Drive-Thru domain, balancing immediate delivery with long-term maintainability.
• Standardize Android best practices across the organization, influencing how multiple teams build and deploy mobile features.
• Architect the interface between mobile clients and complex backend services to ensure offline-resiliency in high-volume drive-thru environments.
• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features across Toast’s enterprise management products.
• Identify high-impact opportunities within the Drive-Thru ecosystem and partner with Product and UX leadership to define the roadmap.
• Bridge the gap between Android and backend systems to ensure a seamless, end-to-end enterprise experience.
• Guide the growth & development of peer engineers with mentoring and coaching.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence by driving innovation and continuously improving engineering practices.

Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)

• 8+ years of experience developing and maintaining Android applications
• Experience with distributed systems, enterprise messaging systems, and/or microservices
• Proficient with modern API standards and technologies (e.g., REST, GraphQL)
• Proven track record of leading teams through major architectural transformations and delivering high-impact, scalable solutions in multi-product environments.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Passionate about driving innovation and continuously improving engineering practices
• Proven ability to influence non-technical stakeholders and align technical debt reduction with business value
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science

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.
• 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, 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.

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