Software Engineer III
KFC•Irvine, CA
•Hybrid
About The Position
The Software Engineer III develops, tests, deploys, and supports scalable software and integration services for Taco Bell’s Customer Middleware platform. The platform connects digital ordering, loyalty, customer identity, messaging, and restaurant experiences. The role contributes to technical design and implements solutions within established architecture and engineering patterns, supporting the reliability and maintainability of Taco Bell’s customer technology ecosystem as part of an experienced engineering team. This individual contributor reports to the Sr. Manager, Software Engineering.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience developing and supporting production applications, APIs, distributed services, or integration platforms.
- A degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent years of experience.
- Hands-on experience with a modern server-side programming language and ecosystem, preferably TypeScript/JavaScript and Node.js, including automated unit and integration testing, debugging, dependency management, and maintainable software-development practices.
- Experience developing and integrating REST or GraphQL APIs, asynchronous events, queues, and service-to-service integrations, with understanding of authentication, error handling, retry behavior, idempotency, and API-contract management.
- Experience building or operating applications on a major cloud platform, preferably AWS, using services such as Lambda, API Gateway, AppSync, S3, DynamoDB, EventBridge, SQS, and CloudWatch, or comparable managed services.
- Experience with modern delivery and engineering tools and practices such as Git, GitLab CI/CD, infrastructure as code (AWS CDK or CloudFormation), Jira, Confluence, API specifications, and observability platforms.
- Demonstrated experience collaborating with product, QE, platform, security, senior engineers, and partner engineering teams to move work from technical discovery and implementation through testing, production deployment, monitoring, and operational support in high-volume transactional systems.
Responsibilities
- Build, test, deploy, and maintain cloud-based APIs, event-driven services, integrations, and data-processing workflows supporting customer identity, loyalty, digital ordering, messaging, customer care, and restaurant experiences.
- Translate product and business requirements into technical designs, API contracts, implementation plans, and engineering stories in collaboration with senior engineers, architects, and partner teams; identify integration dependencies, edge cases, and operational risks.
- Coordinate implementation, testing, defect resolution, and production validation with software engineers, quality engineers, product leaders, platform teams, vendors, and external delivery teams across connected systems, including E-Commerce, Braze, Akamai, and AWS.
- Participate in code and technical design reviews, provide actionable peer feedback, and apply and contribute to engineering standards for reliability, security, maintainability, observability, automated testing, and deployment.
- Investigate and help resolve production and non-production issues using application logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and test results; collaborate on remediation of environment-dependent behavior, rate limits, integration failures, and security findings.
- Improve the engineering lifecycle by addressing technical debt, applying reusable software patterns, expanding automation, documenting system behavior, and supporting secure, dependable releases through CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices.
Benefits
- Year-round flex day Friday.
- Onsite childcare through Bright Horizons.
- Onsite dining center and game room.
- Onsite dry cleaning, laundry services, and carwash.
- Onsite gym with fitness classes and personal trainer sessions.
- Up to 4 weeks of vacation per year, plus holidays and time off for volunteering.
- Tuition reimbursement and education benefits.
- Generous parental leave for all new parents and adoption assistance program.
- 401(k) with a 6% matching contribution from Yum! Brands with immediate vesting.
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, including prescription drug benefits and 100% preventive care.
- Discounts, free food, and swag.
- Annual bonus eligibility and equity, if applicable.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
