Staff Android Engineer, New Ventures

Toast • Boston, MA

57d

About The Position

Years spent building on the restaurant front lines taught us how to build for speed, reliability, and complexity. Built for the dinner rush, our cloud-based platform and tough hardware now power high-velocity operations beyond restaurants. Join us to expand Toast's impact to other industries - helping all kinds of business operators delight their customers, do what they love, and thrive. Bready to make a change? Toast's New Ventures business unit has the goal of researching, developing, and eventually scaling a new generation of products and business lines that can have a substantial impact on Toast's long-term growth. In this unique role, you will be one of the founding engineers on one of our New Venture teams. If you are the type of engineer who would love to build from scratch on the existing Toast ecosystem, this could be the perfect job for you. We are in the early stages of building out features that cater to new types of establishments, and have seen an exciting level of interest in early conversations with operators. We're scrappy and motivated to capture this growth, with many opportunities to make a big impact in this emerging space!

Requirements

• A track record of significant technical and business impact across multiple teams.
• Experience (or interest) in 0 -> 1 builds.
• Expertise in building robust and scalable Android applications using Kotlin, with a strong understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous communication, event-driven architecture, mobile APIs, and integration patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver clean, maintainable, and resilient code that withstands the test of time.
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to unify and motivate cross-functional teams.
• Experience in communicating technical designs across teams and organizations.
• Act as a collaborative and solution-oriented partner to leadership and colleagues.
• Proficiency in Kotlin (preferred) or Java

Responsibilities

• Lead mobile development for a new team to address critical operator needs currently unmet by Toast.
• Own the architecture and mobile implementation for key features and components for the New Venture across the Toast codebase.
• Understands operator needs and contributes to the team's business strategy.
• Collaborate closely with New Ventures Leads to successfully launch an MVP and facilitate its scalable adoption by a broad customer base.
• Navigate diverse codebases across disciplines to consistently deliver high-quality code within established timelines.
• Demonstrate a high degree of ownership in all aspects of development.
• Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow, improve velocity, and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed