Architect, E-Commerce Engineering

Chili's•Coppell, TX

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Brinker is seeking a Solutions Architect, eCommerce to shape the technical direction of its multi-brand Digital Guest Experience platform, including Chilis.com and Maggianos.com. The role partners with engineering and business teams to assess feasibility and evaluate solutions that deliver a seamless digital guest experience and support revenue growth. This is a highly visible, hands-on leadership role. The architect designs solutions, contributes production code, reviews development work, establishes engineering standards, and helps bring solutions from concept through production. The position leads end-to-end architecture across web, mobile, backend services, cloud, data, and third-party integrations; advances API-first design and OpenAPI standards; and contributes to multi-year technical roadmaps and platform improvements. It also involves aligning solutions with enterprise standards and controls, maintaining architecture documentation and reusable patterns, and mentoring engineers through reviews, feedback, pairing, and problem-solving.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
7+ years of software engineering experience, including experience in an architecture or technical leadership role.
Hands-on experience designing, writing, reviewing, and shipping production code, with a desire to remain actively engaged in engineering delivery.
Full-stack engineering experience with TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, React, and Next.js.
Knowledge of WCAG accessibility standards and modern front-end performance optimization.
Experience with DevOps and software delivery practices, including CI/CD tooling, Docker, automated testing, and controlled production deployments.
Experience with AI-assisted engineering and agentic development practices, including AI coding tools, specification-driven development, and building semi-autonomous agents.
Understanding of API-first distributed architectures, including REST APIs, authentication, caching, integration patterns, and modern service-based architecture.
Ability to learn new platforms and technologies quickly, apply new knowledge to solve problems, and continuously evolve technical skills as platform and business needs change.
Ability to develop a clear architectural point of view on complex technical problems, evaluate tradeoffs, and bring other engineers along.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain architecture, tradeoffs, risks, and dependencies to technical and business stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Experience architecting, delivering, and monitoring cloud-native applications with platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure.
Experience with observability tools such as New Relic, Datadog, or CloudWatch.

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end solution architecture across web, mobile, backend services, cloud, data, and third-party integrations, advancing API-first design and OpenAPI standards.
Partner with engineering and business stakeholders on multi-year technical roadmaps; evaluate solution options, build-versus-buy decisions, estimates, dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs.
Contribute production-quality code, build prototypes and reference implementations, conduct code and design reviews, and address complex technical challenges.
Establish patterns and recommend investments to improve performance, security, reliability, scalability, maintainability, and observability, and to reduce technical debt.
Partner with Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, and Compliance to align Digital Guest Experience solutions with enterprise standards and controls.
Maintain solution designs, architecture diagrams, technical standards, reusable patterns, and architecture principles that help teams operate and evolve the platform.
Mentor engineers through design and code reviews, technical feedback, pairing, and hands-on problem-solving.