Chick-fil-A, Inc. is seeking to expand business interests in Canada, Puerto Rico, and the EMEA and APAC regions, and needs a Sr. Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver backend solutions that power the International Technology Strategy.
Requirements
- Experience shipping SaaS products to internal and external customers.
- Broad and deep programming experience in modern software development languages.
- Experience working with an agile development methodology featuring sprints, points estimation, and daily standups.
- Familiarity with version control systems and code merging/branching; specific experience with git desirable.
- Experience in solutions architecture for distributed, highly available systems as well as cloud solutions.
- 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
Responsibilities
- Architect and Build Solutions: Design and build backend solutions based on product requirements, ensuring scalability, resilience, and security across multiple time zones and regions.
- Deliver Proof-of-Concept solutions to validate international approaches and deploy them with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Pulumi) to AWS or GCP.
- Contribute to full-stack delivery when needed, leveraging expertise in backend languages (Golang, Java, Ruby, or similar) and front-end technologies (TypeScript, React, Next.js).
- Support high-demand, low-latency systems operating at global scale.
- Mentor engineers across the International Engineering Organization, sharing best practices and raising technical standards.
- Collaborate with partner and contract engineering teams: reviewing code, solving complex problems, and modeling high-quality engineering practices.
- Evaluate and recommend emerging technologies, frameworks, and methodologies to improve solution quality and developer experience.
Other
- Bachelor’s Degree or the equivalent combination of education, training and experience from which comparable skills can be acquired
- 4+ years of relevant work experience
- Travel Requirements: 10%
- Required Level of Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Preferred Level of Education: Bachelor's Degree
