Chick-fil-A Corporate Support Center · 10 hours ago
Lead Software Engineer, Operator Technology Solutions
US-GA-Atlanta
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
5+ years expChick-fil-A Corporate Support Center is looking for a Lead Software Engineer to lead an Agile DevOps team focused on creating solutions that gather and analyze operational data for restaurant excellence. The role involves collaborating with engineering product leaders and business partners to deliver insights and improve operations through software engineering best practices.
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Responsibilities
Own the solution architecture decisions for your team’s product
Lead delivery and operations of the team’s product, including both individual contribution and support as well as delegated tasks and support to your team’s 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 knotty problems, reviewing code, and sharing stories
Interview, select, onboard, and oversee contract engineers
Guide engineering team in adoption of Chick-fil-A software engineering standards
Identify & propose emerging software engineering technologies, methodologies and/or approaches
Delegate engineering assignments & assess engineering performance
Help provide support for the portfolio of solutions the team owns
Understand specific business processes and requirements and translate them to software functional requirements
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
3+ years of relevant work experience
Experience designing complex software solutions
Expert-level knowledge in design and programming using Java, JavaScript, or Python or other comparable languages
Experience with relational and non-relational databases
Experience mentoring and leading a team
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Familiarity with Agile principles as applied to software development
Experience developing and deploying applications via cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
Proven ability to positively influence the engineering culture and practices in a professional environment
Preferred
Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical field
5+ years of relevant work experience
Experience with test-driven development, continuous integration and deployment, Agile development methodology, or comparable software development practices
Experience developing and delivering micro frontends
Familiarity using automated testing tools for web development
Deep understanding of AWS architecture
Experience with React Native mobile application delivery
Familiarity with version control systems and code merging/branching; specific experience with git desirable
Experience in technical database design, data collection, and data analysis
Company
Chick-fil-A Corporate Support Center
At its Atlanta headquarters, known as the Corporate Support Center, Chick-fil-A, Inc.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Andrew Cathy
CEO
Brent Ragsdale
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
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