Sr. Lead Software Engineer - Restaurant Development
About The Position
In the Chick-fil-A Senior Lead Software Engineer role you’ll serve as a team leader, problem solver, mentor, and expert software engineer. We need you to apply the technical experience you have gained in software development to the design, development, and delivery of highly engineered, complex technical products, serving to both oversee your teams and contribute as a member. You will not be responsible for HR management of your team, though –you’ll rather be able to focus on the technical aspects of your teams' growth and delivery. Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 4+ years of experience in software engineering
- 3+ years of experience in the technical oversight of software engineering teams
- Demonstrated leadership skills and experience
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing
- Strong organizational skills, including an ability to perform under pressure and manage multiple priorities with competing demands for resources
- Experience designing complex software solutions
- Experience mentoring and leading a team, including good interpersonal and team collaboration skills
- Broad and deep programming experience in Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, or other comparable languages
- Full stack engineering experience, specifically in react
- Experience with SQL and data modeling
- Experience with source control systems like Git
- Experience implementing application security, software design patterns, and the SDLC
- Proven ability to positively influence the engineering culture and practices in a professional environment
- Experience with TDD, CI/CD, agile, Kanban, or similar software development practices
- Experience with Unix/Linux
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering
- 5+ years of experience in the technical oversight of software engineering teams
- AWS Solutions Architecture Certification(s)
Responsibilities
- Own solution architecture decisions for the teams' products
- Lead delivery and operations of the teams' products, including both individual contribution and support as well as delegated tasks and support to your teams' engineers. We desire our lead engineers to be both leads and engineers, spending about half of their time on leading others and half contributing engineering work themselves.
- Lead, mentor, and assess other staff engineers, exemplifying and teaching best practices, helping to solve complex problems, reviewing code, and sharing stories
- Interview, select, onboard, and oversee other engineers
- Guide engineering team in adoption of Chick-fil-A software engineering standards
- Identify & propose emerging software engineering technologies, methodologies and/or approaches
- Specifically do the above as it relates to Chick-fil-A’s systems used by the Restaurant Development department to enable scalable equipment procurement, advance Facilities Work Order technology, and streamline asset and facilities data to improve operational efficiency.
- Note - Working in a DevOps model, this opportunity includes both building and running solutions that could require off-hours support. This support is shared amongst the team members to cover weekends and weeknights.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
