Yum! Brands · 8 hours ago
Lead Golang Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$145K/yr - $182K/yr
5+ years expYum! Brands is the world’s largest restaurant company, operating iconic brands like KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell. They are seeking a Lead Golang Engineer to lead their checkout team, focusing on developing and optimizing Golang based web services for their digital ordering platforms.
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Responsibilities
Develop Golang based GraphQL web services and Nodejs Typescript workflow services as part of our scalable interactive ecommerce platform
Work with in-memory and external caching solutions to improve platform performance
Write comprehensive unit tests
Architect, design, optimize, and refactor code for peak performance
Mentor junior engineers in engineering best practices
Contribute to requirement elicitation and grooming of new functionalities
Collaborate cross-functionally to design features impacting multiple microservices
Qualification
Required
Proficiency with Golang and Node.js
Minimum 5 years of experience building scalable interactive web applications
Familiarity with consuming or creating Graphql web services
Background with unit testing and/or Test-Driven Development (TDD)
A bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field
Team player with a collaborative attitude
Preferred
Web servers (Gin, express, etc.)
Testing libraries (testify, mocha, etc.)
DevOps technologies (harness, docker, AWS, Jenkins, apigee)
Microservice architecture
Internationalization (i18n)
Agile methodologies
CICD pipelines
Git
SQL
Ecommerce
Benefits
4 weeks of vacation PLUS holidays
5 sick days
2 paid volunteer days
401k matching
Medical, dental, vision
Life insurance
Half day Fridays
Generous parental leave
A world-famous recognition culture
Short-term disability
Long-term disability
Company
Yum! Brands
Yum! Brands is a quick-service restaurant brand that primarily operates the likes of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.5B2025-09-09Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
2024-04-26Post Ipo Debt· $2B
1997-09-26IPO
Leadership Team
Christopher Turner
Chief Executive Officer
Ranjith Roy
Chief Financial Officer
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