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 - Mobile DevOps to lead the technical efforts in enhancing the POS app for their restaurant products, focusing on mobile DevOps and CI/CD processes.

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