Staff Software Engineer-Android & Backend Systems

Toast is scaling rapidly, and with that growth comes exciting opportunities to evolve a developer ecosystem which enables Toast engineers and external partners to continue to deliver excellent products on top of a reliable and sustainable platform. This role will help define, design, build, and maintain software solutions which advance developer effectiveness at Toast and provide a world-class experience to engineers across the business.

Toast is looking for a staff software engineer to join the Cash & Close and Shift Review team in India. You'll play a key role in building the products and platform that help restaurants reconcile sales, manage cash-handling workflows, review shift performance, and gain operational insights across Toast’s ecosystem.

• →Design, build, deploy, and maintain highly resilient and scalable solutions across Android applications and backend services.
• →Lead complex projects that improve functionality, reliability, and operational efficiency for our customers.
• →Drive end-to-end technical solutions spanning Android clients, APIs, and backend systems.
• →Partner with a wide array of teams across Toast to deliver impactful customer experiences.
• →Contribute to the overall quality, performance, and reliability of Android and backend systems.
• →Ensure quality through automated testing, code reviews, and operational excellence practices.
• →Roll* features out to customers, including monitoring production health and measuring success.
• →Collaborate with UX and PM on the definition, design, and delivery of features.
• →Mentor and coach engineers while influencing technical direction and driving engineering excellence across the team.

• Minimum Bachelor's degree required.
• 10+ years of experience developing and maintaining Android applications.
• Experience designing, building, and operating backend services and APIs at scale.
• Extensive experience with object-oriented programming languages such as Java or Kotlin, with a deep understanding of testing, quality, and engineering best practices.
• Experience working with distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-based architectures.
• Experience leading technical design and delivering complex projects across multiple teams.
• Experience shipping production software and balancing delivery velocity with platform stability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Strong understanding of system design, API design, and data modeling.
• Focused on delivering positive impact for Toast customers.
• Enjoys working in a collaborative team environment with a shared codebase.
• Excellent cross-team communication and technical leadership skills.

We are hiring individuals with a wide range of experience so if you have more or less than these exact roles, please still apply!

Toast’s products run on a stack that ranges from guest and restaurant-facing Android tablets to backend services in Java to internal, guest-facing and restaurant-facing web apps. Our backend services follow a microservice architecture written using Java 8 and DropWizard; we use AWS extensively, ranging from S3 to RDS to Lambda. We have our own platform for dealing with user management, service elevations and robust load balancing. Toast stores data in a set of sharded Postgres databases and utilises Apache Spark for large-scale data workloads, including query and batch processing. The front-end is built primarily using React and ES6. The main Toast POS application is an Android application written in Java and Kotlin. For data between tablets and our cloud platform, we operate RabbitMQ clusters as well as direct tablet communication to the back end.

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.

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.

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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.

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