Sr. Software Engineer, Popeyes

Restaurant Brands International•Miami, FL

4d•Onsite

About The Position

Restaurant Brands International Inc. (RBI) is a global leader in the quick-service restaurant industry, owning iconic brands like TIM HORTONS®, BURGER KING®, POPEYES®, and FIREHOUSE SUBS®. At Popeyes, digital platforms are crucial for guest engagement, ordering, promotions, loyalty, and franchise operations across North America. RBI is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to lead the technical design, architecture, and delivery of scalable, high-performance digital solutions. This role will significantly impact guest interactions and support franchisee tools. The ideal candidate is a senior technical leader who actively contributes code, guides architectural direction, and enhances engineering standards. Collaboration with Product, Design, Data, and Brand leadership is key to building innovative digital solutions that improve guest satisfaction, drive sales, and modernize the Popeyes technology ecosystem. RBI operates on a 5-day in-office work schedule to foster collaboration, and candidates must be comfortable working onsite 5 days a week in Miami, FL.

Requirements

6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including leading complex technical initiatives.
Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Node.js.
Experience with GraphQL (Apollo Federation preferred).
Cloud expertise, preferably AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
Experience designing and operating distributed, high-traffic systems.
Strong understanding of relational and non-relational database systems.
Experience with CI/CD tools (CircleCI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and automation pipelines.
Familiarity with observability tools (Datadog, CloudWatch).
Strong understanding of testing methodologies (A|B Testing and Experimentation).
Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent industry experience.
Proven ability to independently design and implement technical solutions from business requirements.
A passion for mentoring team members and contributing to a collaborative, high-impact team environment.
Demonstrate fluency with AI coding assistants as a daily development tool, candidates should be comfortable discussing how they structure prompts, manage context, use plan/agent modes, and evaluate AI output.

Nice To Haves

Experience in QSR, retail, or consumer-facing digital businesses preferred.
Bonus for experience building or contributing to agentic systems, MCP servers, or internal AI tooling.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and deliver robust technical solutions for critical guest facing, team member facing and franchisee facing digital features.
Lead architecture and system design decisions, creating and documenting clear and reasoned approaches.
Contribute meaningful production code across React, Node.js, and TypeScript-based systems.
Improve performance and scalability of services handling high transaction volumes.
Raise the bar on engineering processes, CI/CD pipelines, automation, and developer experience.
Elevate overall code quality through rigorous design and code reviews, mentorship, and engineering best practices.
Lead development of new features from concept through deployment, ensuring reliability and maintainability.
Implement strong observability and incident triage methodologies using tools such as Datadog or similar platforms.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
Champion testing practices including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
Mentor engineers and foster a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and technical excellence.
Leverage AI-assisted development tools effectively, including writing clear prompts, authoring instruction/context files, scoping plans for execution, and reviewing AI-generated code with the same rigor as human-written code.