Senior Android Engineer, International

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.

We're taking steps to help restaurants navigate these unprecedented times with technology, resources, and community. Our focus is on building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love. And because our technology is purpose-built for restaurants, by restaurant people, restaurants can trust that we'll deliver on their needs for today while investing in experiences that will power their restaurant of the future.

Toast has established itself as the leading hospitality platform in the US, and we are now setting our sights on the global stage. As part of the International team, in our missions to expand globally, we are building the core systems to launch Toast into new markets. You will join a high-impact, high-ownership engineering team solving complex technical challenges in a fast-paced environment. This role is not just about shipping features - it is about building the core infrastructure, tools, and workflows that enable every engineering team at Toast to deliver internationally-ready products faster and with confidence.

The team works closely with other teams, driving key international business objectives while improving the productivity of the entire Toast engineering organization. Key areas of focus include internationalisation, distributed systems, infrastructure, tooling, and workflows, all of which are essential for the success of Toast's products in international markets.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

• Define, collaborate and drive i18n approaches and quality standards across the iOS/android community in engineering organisation
• Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable features across Toast's products
• Evolve Toast's existing products suite to meet global market needs
• Collaborate with UX and PM on the definition and design of features
• Collaborate with the team to plan and estimate work
• Work closely with Toast internal teams and pilot customers to ensure successfully deliver international ready products
• Build core features into the Point of Sale
• Mentor and coach other engineers

What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)

• High level of proficiency with Kotlin, Java or another object-oriented language, with a deep understanding of testing, quality & best practices.
• High level of proficiency working with Android systems
• The ability to take complex business problems, and create easy-to-use solutions at scale.
• Working experience of API principles e.g. REST
• Enjoys building well-engineered, usable and accessible systems
• Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild
• Ability to embrace an agile mindset focused on delivering usable software
• Adaptable to work in changing environments

Nice to haves

• Experience with localisation and internationalization frameworks
• Proficiency in iOS and Android development
• Experience working in backend Java/Kotlin micro services

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 running in the restaurant.
• 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.

*** This is a hybrid role requiring in-office presence two days per week ***

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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.

Our Total Rewards Philosophy
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.