Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead - Mobile DevOps

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.

The Toast POS app is the central pillar of Toast’s restaurant products. Every day, hundreds of thousands of servers, hosts, bartenders, and chefs use Toast’s POS to serve millions of guests. Our POS product is constantly evolving, and the POS Productivity team builds the platform that makes this evolution possible.

Our mission is to make it as easy as possible for 150+ Android engineers to develop new features and deliver them with high confidence and quality. We are customer-obsessed—our customers are our fellow developers, and luckily for us, they are just a Slack message away! We strive to make it easy for people to do the right thing by default.

The team manages a broad technical domain, including CI/CD, the local developer experience, and release engineering for the POS app. Its projects cover Android app development, Java and Kotlin Cloud services in AWS, React UIs, and more. The team is an excellent fit for Android engineers with experience with mobile DevOps–CI/CD, and build and release processes.

The team’s current primary goals are boosting build speeds and significantly reducing our lead time to value by optimizing POS developers’ build/test cycles, and making updates to the mobile app release platform to allow Toast to manage concurrent releases across multiple projects.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)

• Technical Leadership: Act as an IC leader, taking ownership over the team’s domain, health, and ongoing efforts. Promote a positive, engaged engineering culture.
• Strategic Problem Solving: Don’t just move from project to project; systematically identify the highest ROI problems to solve and build alignment with stakeholders across the organization.
• Team Building & Mentoring: Actively build the team and mentor engineers to grow their technical and professional skills.
• Execution Excellence: Deliver rapid, high-quality output, leveraging AI tooling to accelerate development and improve code quality.
• Metrics & Observability: Define what “good” and “better” look like using high signal-to-noise metrics. Proactively identify ways to reduce ad-hoc toil and improve system health.
• Collaborative Problem Solving: Partner closely with the developer community, release manager and QA functions to develop DevEx, feature flag (FF) management and release strategies.
• 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)

• Deep experience with Android development and a strong interest in full-stack work (Java/Kotlin Cloud services, React UIs).
• Proven experience in mobile CI/CD and release engineering, particularly with Jenkins and Gradle.
• A self-starter who takes initiative without waiting for direction and thrives in a fast-paced environment.
• Passionate about improving the day-to-day lives of fellow engineers and removing friction from their workflows.
• Ability to explain complex technical tradeoffs to diverse audiences and build consensus among technical leads.
• Experience using AI tools to enhance productivity and a drive to automate "the right thing" by default.

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.

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