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Principal Mobile Engineer, Android - Boston Massachusetts
Company: Toast Tab, Inc. Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Posted On: 01/18/2025
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)
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