Principal Mobile Engineer, Android

Company: Toast Tab, Inc.
Location: Boston
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

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 Payments Experience team powers some of the restaurant's most critical workflows (checking out, taking payments) across 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.While the technical challenges are demanding, the impact of our work on our customers is tangible and direct. Our customers spend all day using the POS. When we design new features with a great UX, we can improve the staff's job satisfaction, the guest experience, and the restaurant's bottom line. Small changes in the tightest loops pay off many thousands of times over. Innovative new features from Toast help our restaurants thrive in the face of today's ever-changing restaurant landscape.We are seeking an experienced technologist with the demonstrated ability to make a cross-team impact to join our POS Payments Experience team. This is a hands-on technical role that includes a large component of technical design, cross-team collaboration across POS and Fintech teams, and large-scale technical problem-solving.About this roll (Responsibilities)

• Establish technical direction for the Toast POS payments space, in collaboration with architectural leaders and experienced engineers.
• Accountable for technical quality of Toast POS payments workflows.
• 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 payments-related 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 Restaurant 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.Our Spread of Total RewardsWe 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 .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), equity, and benefits.Pay Range: $182,000-$291,000 USDWe are ToastersDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success.At Toast our employees are our secret ingredient. When they are powered to succeed, Toast succeeds.The restaurant industry is one of the most diverse industries. We embrace and are excited by this diversity, believing that only through authenticity, inclusivity, high standards of respect and trust, and leading with humility will we be able to achieve our goals.Baking inclusive principles into our company and diversity into our design provides equitable opportunities for all and enhances our ability to be first in class in all aspects of our industry.Bready to make a change? Apply today!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 .
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