Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead - Mobile DevOps

Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead to provide technical leadership and enhance the developer experience for their mobile applications through effective problem-solving and team mentorship.

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

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