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.
Are you interested in using the latest technology to help our customers build amazing relationships with their guests? Does the idea of developing products that help people cherish their best moments in life sound exciting to you? As an engineer on the Guest Engagement team, your mission will be creating the next generation of engagement experiences that help bring new guests into the restaurants, and turn them into regulars. You will work closely with UX, PM and QA, and have access to state of the art AI tools, to deliver some real impact on real people.
A day in the life (Responsibilities)
- Design, build and maintain high performing, flexible, and scalable Android solutions running on Toast POS hardware in thousands of restaurants
- Ship features end-to-end, from design through rollout, monitoring for success and iterating based on real-world use
- Build great UX using best practices of modern Android development
- Be an awesome teammate who's all in on collaboration and collective success
- Create products and features that help restaurants deliver a best-in-class guest experience
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering stakeholders, and actively participate in Agile ceremonies
- Partner with team members and other engineers across the company to raise the bar for the Android experience at Toast
What you'll need to thrive (Requirements)
- Minimum 2-4 years of experience with Android development in Kotlin and/or Java, with hands-on experience shipping production Android apps
- Hands on experience of modern Android tooling and frameworks is a minimum requirement
- Excited about AI-assisted development and LLM-based agents (Claude Code or similar), and interested in pioneering new workflows with the team
- Comfortable reading and integrating with backend services (REST/GraphQL) and curious to work across the stack when needed
- Comfortable with ambiguity, agile delivery, and shipping usable software incrementally
- Passionate about making users happy and seeing people use your product in the wild
- Strong on software development fundamentals — code quality, unit tests, clean code — and open to evolving your workflow with AI tooling
Our Tech Stack
- Android app built in Java & Kotlin running in the restaurant
- A core of Java & Kotlin based backend services
- Claude Code and similar AI agentic development tools as part of daily engineering
- PostgreSQL and DynamoDB as core persistence
- REST and GraphQL APIs, plus many more technologies that help us build a top-class platform
**This is a hybrid role requiring in-office collaboration two days per week in our Dublin office.**
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.
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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. We ask that you complete interviews and assessments on your own, without real-time AI tools, recording, or transcription bots, unless we tell you otherwise in advance. To learn more: https://careers.toasttab.com/ai-in-hiring
Our Approach to Hybrid Working
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 hospitality community, regardless of location. Please visit the Locations page on our career site to learn more about our in-office expectations by region: https://careers.toasttab.com/locations-toast
People Are the Secret Ingredient in Our Recipe for Success
At Toast, our employees are our secret ingredient—when they thrive, we thrive. The restaurant industry brings together people with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives, and we value that same breadth at Toast. We strive to build a culture grounded in authenticity, respect, and humility, where every Toaster has a real opportunity to grow, contribute, and do their best work—raising the bar in delivering exceptional experiences for our customers and each other.
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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 [email protected].
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Toast New York, New York, USA Office
Toast New York City Office
Located in Flatiron, steps from Union Square’s convenient subway station and popular restaurants, the office was designed with Toasters and our customers in mind. We have an array of meeting spaces, from open-concept areas to soundproofed phone booths, and a fully stocked kitchen.
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