Now, more than ever, the Toast team is committed to our customers. We’re taking steps to help restaurants navigate these unprecedented times with technology, resources, and community. Our focus is on building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt, take control, and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love. And because our technology is purpose-built for restaurants, by restaurant people, restaurants can trust that we’ll deliver on their needs for today while investing in experiences that will power their restaurant of the future.
Every day, many thousands of servers, hosts, and chefs use Toast POS (Point of Sale) to serve millions of guests in their restaurants. To make our restaurants successful, we need to develop products that install painlessly, work together seamlessly, and quickly guide restaurant staff and Toast team members to resolve any problems that occur.
The Android OS team sits at the intersection of hardware and software and builds a platform that is the foundation for the Toast POS devices enabling creation of features that delight our customers. The Android OS team partners with a broad set of teams including POS R&D, Hardware R&D, Hardware Operations, Configuration Centers and Manufacturing partners.
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer who is a hands-on technical leader and will pave the path to build Toast’s next generation Android platform. The strongest candidates will have broad experience with Android OS Framework layer, are collaborative, and lead technical discussions with other Android teams like Application teams or Kernel/BSP teams. If you are someone who can think big, and are passionate about building software platforms that can be re-used for current and future Toast products with high focus on quality, this position is for you!
About this roll* (Responsibilities)
- Lead the effort to keep Toast Devices secure and up to date on current Android OS versions
- Build strong relationships and work closely with Toast ODM partners to efficiently debug and resolve software issues
- Support the Devices QA team on efficient testing of Toast devices for both manual and automated testing.
- Android OS framework customizations and development of new Android framework services.
- Android system application development
- Support upgrade of existing devices to new Android OS versions
- Design for Android OS Framework updates that are easy to maintain and upgrade when new OS versions are available.
- Collaborate with Software, Hardware, Factory and Product Management teams on the product roadmap and requirements to build a long term vision for Toast Device capabilities.
- Help set the standard for software quality by adopting modern software test frameworks and practices in day to day development.
- Support the growth and development of junior team members through coaching and feedback.
Do you have the right ingredients*? (Requirements)
- 5+ years of software development experience, which includes 3 years of experience working with Android OS software at the AOSP Framework layer.
- Android experience designing multi-layer architectures that would expand from Application, to Framework and Kernel layer.
- Experience with Google’s AOSP architecture developing Android framework services, Android Native applications (JNI / NDK) or system applications in JAVA or Kotlin.
- Experience debugging issues within the Android Framework and Linux Kernel.
- Proficient in C/C++, Java or other object oriented programming languages.
- Experience working with source control tools such as Git, Gerrit, GitHub, and with Android command line tools such as adb and fastboot.
- Experience implementing automated tests for Android OS subsystems
Bonus ingredients* (preferred skills)
- Experience PTS / Payment industry.
- Experience developing support factory applications in Java or C/C++
- Experience working with HIDL (HAL interface definition language).
- Knowledge of Kernel space like Device Trees’ roles in Device Bringup and configuration.
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, etc..
- Familiarity with Android security model (SE Linux policy) and secure boot.
- Experience with LTE modem.
