Toast is driven by building the all-in-one restaurant platform that helps restaurants operate their business, increase sales, engage guests, and keep employees happy. 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.

A bit about the team:

The Modern Dining team is a unique team at Toast made up of engineers specialising in both full-stack and Android development. We are obsessed with rethinking the most painful and manual parts of the dining experience and transforming them into modern, delightful experiences for restaurant staff and their guests. Our focus is on building the restaurant of the future and helping Toast stand out as a thought leader in the restaurant space. As a highly visible, high-impact team, our work shapes how people experience dining and hospitality every day. If you’re excited about working on meaningful problems and helping define the future of dining, this might be the team for you.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

Work across software both in the restaurant and the cloud
Navigate diverse codebases across disciplines to consistently deliver high-quality code within established timelines.
Work directly with pilot customers (sometimes in the restaurant!) to ensure successful delivery and operation; incorporating their feedback and iterating quickly
Collaborate with UX and PM on the definition and design of features
Collaborate with teams across Toast
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.
Mentor and coach other engineers
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 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 in frontend development, especially ReactJS
Working experience with Android systems
The ability to take complex business problems, break them down and create easy-to-use solutions
Working experience of API principles e.g. REST
Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild
Adaptable to work in changing environments

Nice to haves;

Proficient in Android development
- - Understanding of Activities, Fragments, Services.
  - Reactivity.
  - Dependency Injection with Dagger
  - Android XML layouts
  - Coroutines

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.

How Toast Uses AI in its Hiring Process

Throughout the hiring process, our goal is to get to know you. We use AI tools to support our recruiters and interviewers with tasks like note-taking, summarization, and documentation of interviews to ensure they can be fully focused on your conversation. All hiring decisions are made by people.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success

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.

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 candidateaccommodations@toasttab.com.

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Senior Software Engineer - Modern Dining

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